Social Psychology

Erin L Yeagley

		Graduate Student  -  Primary Advisor: D. Michael Kuhlman Research Interests Recent Publications Vita eyeagley@psych.udel.edu Office: 175-I McKinly Labs (302) 831-2472 (302) 831-3645 -fax Lab: 175-B McKinly Labs Preferred contact method - email Research Opportunities If you're looking for some research experience this fall semester, e-mail Erin at the address listed above .

Research Interests

social value orientation, Interdependence Theory, relationship structure and trust

Research Summary:

I work with Dr. Mike Kuhlman and fellow graduate student Madeleine Page studying Social Value Orienation (SVO), a personality variable describing one's attitude toward strangers (Cooperative, Individualistic, or Competitive).

My particular interests span the following topics: The evloution of cooperation as the modal SVO; The encoding and decoding of SVO via non-verbal behavior or emotional expression present in still photos; How partner trustworthiness, power structure, and SVO affect attraction to and behavior in dyadic relationships; The definition and operationalization of trust in the social interdependence literature.

Our lab's most recent and immediate future projects involve having people make personality judgments of targets based on still photos of the targets. One goal of this work is to begin to understand how much information is needed for naiive judges to accurately guess the SVO of a stranger, and what information judges are using to make these guesses. This will help us to understand how people can use a stranger's facial cues to decide whether to interact with a target, or to determine how they will behave in interactions with the target. People's ability to do this has implications for the evolution of cooperative behavior and traits.

I was also recently involved with a project with Dr. Beth Morling studying the accuracy of personality judgments at zero-aquaintance, using video clips of targets.

Recent Publications

Yeagley, E., Morling, B., & Nelson, M. (2007). Nonverbal zero-acquaintance accuracy of self-esteem, social dominance orientation, and satisfaction with life. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 1099-1106.

Sawyer, John E., Houlette, Melissa A., and Yeagley, Erin L. (2006). Decision performance and diversity structure: Comparing faultlines in convergent, crosscut, and racially homogeneous groups. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 99, 1-15.

Yeagley, E. L., Kuhlman, D. M., and Grzelak, Janusz (2006). Relationship Attractiveness: The Roles of Control, Partner Trustworthiness, and Social Value Orientation. Manuscript in preparation.

Yeagley, E. L., Kuhlman, D. M., and Grzelak, Janusz (2005, July). Attraction to Dyadic Relationships as a Function of Outcome Control and Partner Trustworthiness.  Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Krakow, Poland.

Houlette, M., Yeagley, E. L., and Sawyer, J. (2000, August). Information Sharing and Integration in Culturally Diverse Cross-Functional Groups. Paper presented at the meeting of the Academy of Management, Toronto, CA.

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