February 25, 2013 I. Arguing to Display Identity II. Frames for Arguinga. Utility: to get somethingb. Identity: to display some facet of selfc. Dominance: to assert power over anotherd. Play: to mess arounde. Blurting: do you adapt to others?f. Cooperation or Competitiong. Civility: is arguing pleasant or nasty?h. Professional contrast: agree with scholars?III. Measuring Identity Framesa. Original frame items: I use arguments to display my intellectual ability. Other people often use arguments to display their intellectual ability. Arguments are useful in showing what I believe. Arguments are useful in showing how smart I am. You can learn a lot about another person by watching what sorts of things he/she will say during an argument. b. New measurement i. Supplemental: how often do you do it?1. How often do you do this? How typical is this for you? In how much of your interpersonal arguing does identity workplay an important role?2. Is identity work a common reason for you to give reasons?c. Our studyi. The identity frame: what kind of person does or doesn’t do this? What does it look like when it happens? How is this frame related to other relevant perspectives about arguing and communication?d. What kind of people do it?i. Argumentative ii. Verbal aggressiveness iii. Masculine/Feminine iv. Big Three: psychoticism, neoroticism, extraversionv. Entitlement, narcissismvi. Other argument frames IV. Your Taska. Work out a modeli. Identity arguing must be a key element V. Choicea. Utility: an all-purpose metricb. Can ask people to rate value of $100, a puppy, and a quick meal on the same scale, maybe 1 to 10. c. When ask people to make their own probability estimates, call these “subjective probabilities”d. Get SEU models- subjective unexpected
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