Positive-negative asymmetry and bipolar contrast

Adams–Webber, Jack

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“…Likewise, in experimental settings, when subjects are instructed to assign others to positive or negative personality dimensions, they tend to assign more positive than negative traits, on average 62% positive versus 38% negative. This ratio (1,6) is found repeatedly in previous research, known as the 'golden section' hypothesis in judgmental asymmetry (Adams-Webber, 1997;Rigdon & Epting, 1982). Likewise, in our study, the good fairy tale role assignments outnumber the bad ones 63 versus 37% (Table 2), that is, they approximate the 'golden section' hypothesis almost perfectly.…”

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Are We Sucked into Fairy Tale Roles? Role Archetypes in Imagination and Organization

Moxnes

2016

Organization Studies

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This research is an attempt to understand and measure mythological roles in attributional processes. Drawing upon Carl Jung's work on the archetype we, first, argue how role archetypes from fantasy dramas and worldwide fairy tales populate organizational life, and further, contend that they have extensive influence on how group members sort their judgments of each other. In the second part of the article, our understanding of role archetypes is aided by quantitative measurements: participants in 31 consecutive leadership development classes are asked which fellow classmates they spontaneously associate with each of seven good and seven bad fairy tale roles (deep roles), if any. Our main question is to evaluate the magnitude of agreement on the assignment of roles. Results give strong support to the assumption that group members quite easily categorize fellow members into stereotypes identified by fairy tale roles. Given the evidence in the present analysis, we posit that the role imagoes most frequently assigned (The Big Five of Fairy Tales) are isomorphic with core family roles, and further, that broad personality traits have their roots in archetypal imaginations. To more effectively secure that mythological mechanisms will not triumph over more rational, complex and balanced ways of judgments, we suggest that organizational research should acknowledge the subtle and hidden world of deep role archetypes. Keywordsarchetype, deep role, fairy tale, Jung, organizational mythology, role attribution 'In the beginning is the image; first imagination then perception; first fantasy then reality … We are indeed such stuff as dreams are made on. ' James Hillman (1975, p. 23)

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Are We Sucked into Fairy Tale Roles? Role Archetypes in Imagination and Organization

Moxnes

2016

Organization Studies

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“…That the evaluations of significant others expressed by the obese group in relation to the elicited constructs, would be significantly closer to the negative poles of constructs than those expressed by the control group. It was hypothesized in other words that obese subjects would display a tendency to make systematically negative judgements, in contrast with the "natural" tendency, reported in the literature on the repertory grid, to positively value others as well as the self [45,48,52,53].…”

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“…Finally, to evaluate Hypothesis 4, the bias index was used to measure subjects' tendency to use one pole of a construct more than the other pole [76]. The literature on RET reports a systematic tendency on the part of individuals to position other elements at the same pole of a given construct at which they have positioned themselves, which is usually the positive pole: People have been found to assign other elements to the same construct pole as themselves in 63% of cases -known as the golden section -versus the remaining 37% of cases in which they assign them to the opposite pole [52,53]. The bias index is calculated for each of the constructs elicited from the subject using the following formula:…”

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Self-Other Positioning in Obesity: A Pilot Study Using Repertory Grid Technique

Castiglioni¹,

Pepe²,

Gandino³

et al. 2013

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Self-other positioning was investigated in a group of obese youths in order to empirically test the clinical hy-pothesis – based on the constructionist theory of Family Semantic Polarities – that obese people are affected by a negative self-perception and low self-esteem. Repertory grid technique was used with 30 participants (15 obese-overweight and 15 control) to elicit and compare their personal constructs and assess, via ad hoc measurement indices, the positions they as- signed to the self and significant others in relation to these constructs. The results confirmed the research hypotheses, with obese subjects displaying a tendency to pos ition both self and others at the negative pole of bipolar constructs and reporting greater self-ideal discrepancy. These findings and their limitations are discussed in relation to their clinical applications and in light of the methodologi cal issues arising from the study.

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Evaluating Self-Reflexion Analysis Using Repertory Grids

Grice

McDaniel

2009

Computational Methods for Counterterrorism

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Summary. Vladimir Lefebvre's Algebraic Model of Self-Reflexion is a formal and flexible system for modeling the processes that underlie human judgments. The model has received notable empirical support from studies within personal construct psychology using the repertory grid approach. In this chapter we briefly review this research and the repertory grid method, and then report the results of two new studies on the model conducted in our laboratory. Lastly, we will briefly discuss the implications of our findings with regard to future research on self-reflexion.

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Positive-negative asymmetry and bipolar contrast

Cited by 4 publications

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Are We Sucked into Fairy Tale Roles? Role Archetypes in Imagination and Organization

Are We Sucked into Fairy Tale Roles? Role Archetypes in Imagination and Organization

Self-Other Positioning in Obesity: A Pilot Study Using Repertory Grid Technique

Evaluating Self-Reflexion Analysis Using Repertory Grids

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