Are We on the Same Wavelength? Interpersonal Complementarity as Shared Cyclical Patterns During Interactions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1005-1020

  Sadler, Pamela ^a   Ethier, Nicole ^b   Gunn, Gregory R ^a   Duong, David ^b   Woody, Erik ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

dyadic processes; interpersonal complementarity; interpersonal theory; mutual adaptation; time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STUDENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STUDENTS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 72949099000     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016232     Document Type: Article

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