THE GENERALIZABILITY OF SOCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING TO ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS: A SUMMARY OF TWO FIELD EXPERIMENTS

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 883-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEVE M. JEX ◽  
PAUL E. SPECTOR
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Organizational Settings

The Generalizability of Social Information Processing to Organizational Settings: A Summary of two Field Experiments

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (3-1) ◽  
pp. 883-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve M. Jex ◽  
Paul E. Spector
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Job Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Newly Hired

The purpose of this research was to conduct two field experiments of the Social Information Processing (SIP) theory of job attitudes and reports of job characteristics. in the first, subjects were randomly assigned to either positive or no feedback regarding the job satisfaction of others in similar jobs. The results indicated that being exposed to such feedback had no effect on job satisfaction or perceptions of job characteristics. A second experiment was conducted in which both newly hired employees and employees with considerable job experience were randomly assigned to positive, negative, or no feedback conditions. The results were consistent with those of Exp. 1 in that being exposed to feedback regarding the job satisfaction of others had no effect on satisfaction or job perceptions. This was true regardless of job experience. Salancik and Pfeffer in 1978 may have overstated the importance of social cues in organizational settings.

Hostility and Perceptions of Support in Ambiguous Social Interactions

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Vranceanu ◽  
Linda C. Gallo ◽  
Laura M. Bogart
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Processing Bias ◽  
Information Processing Bias

The present study investigated whether a social information processing bias contributes to the inverse association between trait hostility and perceived social support. A sample of 104 undergraduates (50 men) completed a measure of hostility and rated videotaped interactions in which a speaker disclosed a problem while a listener reacted ambiguously. Results showed that hostile persons rated listeners as less friendly and socially supportive across six conversations, although the nature of the hostility effect varied by sex, target rated, and manner in which support was assessed. Hostility and target interactively impacted ratings of support and affiliation only for men. At least in part, a social information processing bias could contribute to hostile persons' perceptions of their social networks.

Social information processing of children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Kurss ◽  
Anna E. Craig ◽  
Jennifer Reiter-Purtill ◽  
Kathryn Vannatta ◽  
Cynthia Gerhardt
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Neurofibromatosis Type 1 ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Neurofibromatosis Type
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