When friends exchange negative feedback

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• 作者：Stacey R. Finkelstein ; Ayelet Fishbach ; Yanping Tu
• 关键词：Negative feedback ; Relationship depth ; Goals ; Motivation
• 刊名：Motivation and Emotion
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：41
• 期：1
• 页码：69-83
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology, general; Personality and Social Psychology; Clinical Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-6644
• 卷排序：41

文摘

In four studies, we document an increase in the amount of negative feedback friends and colleagues exchange as their relationship deepens. We find that both actual and perceived relationship depth increase the amount of negative feedback people seek from and provide to each other, as well as their tendency to invest in a focal (relationship or performance) goal in response to negative feedback. The amount of positive feedback on goal pursuit, by contrast, remains stable as the relationship deepens. We attribute the increase in negative feedback to the different meaning of such feedback for people in deep versus shallow relationships: only in the context of deep relationships does negative feedback signal insufficient resource investment in the focal goal, and hence close friends and colleagues seek, provide, and respond to negative feedback.