University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2024 Jun;50(6):823-840. doi: 10.1177/01461672221140269. Epub 2023 Feb 2.
Social interactions unfold within networks of relationships. How do beliefs about others' social ties shape-and how are they shaped by-expectations about how others will behave? Here, participants joined a fictive online game-playing community and interacted with its purported members, who varied in terms of their trustworthiness and apparent relationships with one another. Participants were less trusting of partners with untrustworthy friends, even after they consistently showed themselves to be trustworthy, and were less willing to engage with them in the future. To test whether people not only expect friends to behave similarly but also expect those who behave similarly to be friends, an incidental memory test was given. Participants were exceptionally likely to falsely remember similarly behaving partners as friends. Thus, people expect friendship to predict similar behavior and vice versa. These results suggest that knowledge of social networks and others' behavioral tendencies reciprocally interact to shape social thought and behavior.
社交互动是在关系网络中展开的。人们如何看待他人的社会关系会影响他们对他人行为的期望，而他人的行为期望又会如何影响他们对社会关系的看法？在这里，参与者加入了一个虚构的在线游戏社区，并与其中据称的成员进行了互动，这些成员在可信度和彼此之间的明显关系方面存在差异。即使参与者一直表现出值得信赖，他们对与不可信朋友的伙伴也不太信任，并且将来不太愿意与他们交往。为了测试人们是否不仅期望朋友表现相似，而且期望那些表现相似的人成为朋友，进行了一项偶然的记忆测试。参与者非常有可能错误地将表现相似的伙伴视为朋友。因此，人们期望友谊能够预测相似的行为，反之亦然。这些结果表明，对社交网络和他人行为趋势的了解会相互作用，从而影响社交思维和行为。
