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    What Did You Say She Was Like? Features of Gossip Associated with Hearsay Accuracy and Consensus
    (University of Oregon, 2018) Xu, Chenle
    When gossiping about a person, how does one’s verbal responses affect the impression formed by the gossipers? A previous study on hearsay reputation find that when two gossipers gossiping about a target person, the hearsay accuracy about the target is low but the consensus between the two gossipers is high (Costello & Srivastava, 2017). As there has not been any research, to our knowledge, examining the factors that affect hearsay accuracy and consensus, this study intends to fill in the gap by exploring verbal responses as the potential factors. This study investigated the impacts of nine types of verbal responses on the accuracy and consensus. We coded 114 gossip conversations from the previous study (Costello & Srivastava, 2017) for nine specific responses and eight global features of the conversations. We explored the extent to which these specific and global features of gossip relate to consensus and accuracy in interpersonal impressions, operationalized as profile agreements. By using profile correlations with interpersonal ratings, the result suggests that certain types of responses may be associated with accuracy and consensus; for example, offering evaluation as a type of response seems to lead to a higher consensus between gossipers but cannot lead to an accurate impression of the target. Although few of the correlations were statistically significant, this project should still help to shed light on the conversational features associated with accuracy and consensus of impressions formed through gossip.
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    What Types of Status Matter? Consensus, Accuracy, and Personality Antecedents of a Two-Component Model of Status
    (University of Oregon, 2020) Pearman, Joshua J.; Hughes, Bradley T.; Srivastava, Sanjay
    In hierarchies, people are assigned ranking based on their status and power compared to others. A person’s status is conferred based on two components: the respect and admiration that they receive from others, and how much social influence they possess (Anderson, Hildreth, & Howland, 2015). The study’s primary aim is to examine the relationship between these two components, as well as how they are related to the perceptions, personality traits, and behaviors associated with status. We have three sets of hypotheses. First, the components of respect/admiration and social influence will positively correlate with each other. Second, people in a group will achieve consensus and accuracy in their perceptions of these components of status. Third, the personality trait of extraversion will predict the attainment of respect/admiration and social influence in groups. We will also test how other individual differences predict the attainment of these components of status. These relationships were tested with the Social Relations Model. To test these hypotheses, we collected data from group interactions comprised of four to six people (N = 218). Groups collaborated on a scholarship decision-making task, where each person took turns presenting different candidates’ profiles and then the group would make a unanimous decision on how to award scholarships. While there is extensive research on the perceptions and behaviors of status, the present study seeks to supplement this research by examining how they relate to the individual components of respect/admiration and social influence.