Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0210002

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0210002

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

When Targets Seek to Disconfirm Expectations: Possible Future Interactions and Target Awareness as Moderators of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. The self-fulfilling prophecy has been demonstrated in a series of experimental studies in which "perceivers" are led to hold erroneous expectations about "targets" with whom they interact and subsequently come to believe that targets have confirmed their expectations (perceptual confirmation). Objective raters have demonstrated that targets often do confirm expectations with their actions (behavioural confirmation). However, targets do not always succumb to perceivers' expectations. The research proposed here seeks to examine the active role that targets may take in creating confirmation or disconfirmation by adding a temporal context to interactions, making targets aware of expectations, and manipulating properties of expectations.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-07-2002

End Date: 30-07-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $100,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Social And Community Psychology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Psychology | Social And Community Psychology

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