Been There, Done That: Role Repertoire as a Predictor of Interpersonal Behavior in a Given Situation
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The behaviors derived from roles selected from an individual's repertoire, as measured by sociometric choices for given tasks or by preferred "personality" traits, and the expected effect on an actor of each of the salient situational variables can be used to predict interpersonal behavior in a given situation. The result can be estimated in terms of three dimensions of a conceptual social space: Upward-Downward (dominance vs submission), Positive-Negative (friendly vs unfriendly), and Forward- Backward (accepting vs opposing the task orientation of established authority). The roles in the repertoire, the situational variables, and the resultant expected behavior can be located on a field diagram.
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