Confirmatory processes in attitude transmission: The role of shared reality

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur A. Stukas ◽  
Boyka Bratanova ◽  
Kim Peters ◽  
Yoshihisa Kashima ◽  
Ruth M. Beatson
Keyword(s):  
Shared Reality

You Are the One I Want to Communicate With!

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Pierucci ◽  
Olivier Klein ◽  
Andrea Carnaghi
Keyword(s):  
Memory Bias ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Communication Partner ◽  
Shared Reality Theory ◽  
The One ◽  
Study Participants

This article investigates the role of relational motives in the saying-is-believing effect ( Higgins & Rholes, 1978 ). Building on shared reality theory, we expected this effect to be most likely when communicators were motivated to “get along” with the audience. In the current study, participants were asked to describe an ambiguous target to an audience who either liked or disliked the target. The audience had been previously evaluated as a desirable vs. undesirable communication partner. Only participants who communicated with a desirable audience tuned their messages to suit their audience’s attitude toward the target. In line with predictions, they also displayed an audience-congruent memory bias in later recall.

The Role of Identity in Supporting a Shared Reality On Cross-Functional Project Teams

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 12923
Author(s):  
Susan Leigh Johnson ◽  
Richard J. Boland ◽  
David Aron ◽  
Yunmei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Project Teams ◽  
Shared Reality

Audience-tuning effects on memory: The role of shared reality.

2005 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Echterhoff ◽  
E. Tory Higgins ◽  
Stephan Groll
Keyword(s):  
Shared Reality

scholarly journals We're a Good Match: Selective Political Friending on Social Networking Sites

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Cargnino ◽  
German Neubaum ◽  
Stephan Winter
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Cognitive Closure ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Social Affiliations

Political social media use has become the topic of a growing amount of scholarship. In this regard, the role of user behavior in the formation of politically homogeneous environments (so-called echo chambers) is not fully understood. Building on the concept of selective exposure, we introduce the notion of selective political friending, i.e., the preference for political like-mindedness in social affiliations on social networking sites. In a pre-registered laboratory experiment (N = 199), we find that users preferably build connections to those who share opinions toward controversial political issues. Political like-mindedness outperforms advantages based on the popularity of another user or the career-related fit with another user. Political friending is particularly pronounced when individuals’ pre-existing opinions are strong, while tendencies toward cognitive closure and the desire for shared reality do not impact like-minded friending. The present study unravels psychological patterns in the process of tie-building on SNS and points to the necessity to take motivational complexity into account when studying phenomena linked to political homogeneity. Being the first study to systematically address politically motivated contact choices on social networking sites jointly with their psychological antecedents, this study sheds new light on the debate about like-mindedness in online communication.

scholarly journals Relationship satisfaction in the time of COVID-19: The role of shared reality in perceiving partner support for frontline health-care workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110201
Author(s):  
M. Catalina Enestrom ◽  
John E. Lydon
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Partner Support ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Do So

People often rely on partner support and shared reality during stressful and uncertain times. As such, the current research explored how these may relate to relationship satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. To do so, 155 frontline health-care workers and their significant others completed measures of shared reality and relationship satisfaction, while also indicating their levels of perceived or provided support, respectively. We proposed that shared reality would foster partners providing and health-care workers perceiving support which would, in turn, promote greater relationship satisfaction. Overall, both shared reality and partner support were positively associated with relationship satisfaction for health-care workers and their significant others. Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model with Mediation (APIMeM), we found shared reality to be associated with greater relationship satisfaction through health-care workers perceiving greater support from their partner. Our research demonstrates that shared reality may be a way for people under stress to perceive greater partner support, providing relational benefits for the couple as a whole.

scholarly journals Biased memory retrieval in the service of shared reality with an audience: The role of cognitive accessibility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ullrich Wagner ◽  
Nikolai Axmacher ◽  
Gerald Echterhoff
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Memory Retrieval ◽  
Reaction Time Task ◽  
Target Person ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Epistemic Trust ◽  
Cognitive Accessibility ◽  
Behavioral Information

After communicators have tuned a message about a target person’s behaviors to their audience’s attitude, their recall of the target’s behaviors is often evaluatively consistent with their audience’s attitude. This audience-tuning effect on recall has been explained as resulting from the communicators’ creation of a shared reality with the audience, which helps communicators to achieve epistemic needs for confident judgments and knowledge. Drawing on the ROAR (Relevance Of A Representation) model, we argue that shared reality increases the cognitive accessibility of information consistent (vs. inconsistent) with the audience’s attitude, due to enhanced truth relevance of this information. We tested this prediction with a novel reaction-time task in three experiments employing the saying-is-believing paradigm. Faster reactions to audience-consistent (vs. audience-inconsistent) information were found for trait information but not for behavioral information. Thus, audience-congruent accessibility bias emerged at the level at which impressions and judgments of other persons are typically organized. Consistent with a shared-reality account, the audience-consistent accessibility bias was correlated with perceived shared reality about the target person and with epistemic trust in the audience. Among possible explanations, the findings are best reconciled with the view that the creation of shared reality with an audience triggers basic and "automatic" (spontaneous, low-level) cognitive mechanisms that facilitate the retrieval of audience-congruent (vs. audience-incongruent) trait information about a target person.

Audience-tuning effects on memory: The role of shared reality

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Echterhoff ◽  
E. Tory Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Shared Reality
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