Abstract Body posture influences feelings about the self, but little is known its impact on social cognition more generally. We apply Big Two framework (Agency/Competence, Communion/Warmth) and study how body interpersonal perception in a dyadic interaction. In three experiments, we studied dyads with different postures (Exps. 1 2: expanded/restricted; Exp. 3: expanded/neutral). Dyad members wo...

While identity disturbance has long been considered one of the defining features of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), the present study marks only the third empirical investigation to assess it and the first to do so from the perspective of research on narrative identity. Drawing on the rich tradition of studying narrative identity, the present study examined identity disturbance in a grou...

Consumer behavior is driven, in part, by the degree to which goods and services appeal to underlying motives for agency and communion. The purpose of this research was to develop a brief individual differences measure of these motivations for use in behavioral research and theoretical and applied consumer psychology and marketing studies. We employed a bi-lingual scale development procedure to ...

We investigated the basic meaning dimensions of overt interpersonal behavior in an observational multirater multi-situation study. The interpersonal behavior of 99 participants in 17 different interpersonal role-plays was videotaped and judged by three independent observers using 35 adjective-pairs. Principal Components Analysis yielded three factors with Eigenvalues above chance level. The fir...

Agency is the meta-concept associated with self-advancement in social hierarchies; communion is the partner concept associated with maintenance of positive relationships. Despite the wealth of data documenting the conceptual utility of agency and communion (A & C) as superordinate metaconcepts, no direct measures of global A & C value dimensions are currently available. The first part of this a...

The past research on radicalism is equivocal regarding the ways in which self-concept clarity shapes intentions to engage radical behavior. Seeking address previous mixed findings literature, present examines how an individual’s agency-communion orientation moderates effect of behavioral for groups. Specifically, we propose that agency-oriented individuals show greater participate groups when t...