Acquisition of information in dyadic interaction.

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21 pairs of undergraduates participated in a dyadic game-type experiment, in which they were required to send each other 24 "messages" consisting of colored cards from a choice of 5 colors. Depending on its color, each message sent cost the sender a given number of points and was worth a given number of points to the recipient. Ss were told how much the messages they sent cost them and how much the messages they received were worth to them. They were not told the values and costs of the other person, but they could buy this information from the E if they wished. The major result was that Ss asked for much more information concerning the value to the other person of their messages than concerning the cost to the other person of the messages he sent them. This difference was significantly more marked among relatively competitive than noncompetitive Ss. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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