Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes
             The topic that I chose to do research on was Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes. The two articles I found were related in a sense because they both are in the same field which is interpersonal emotions. One article dealt with the interpersonal effects of emotions in negotiations, where as the other article dealt with gender differences; and why women like women more than men like men. The investigators were interested in finding the interpersonal effects of anger and happiness in negotiations. In the other article, the investigators were interested in finding out why women like women more than men like men. The investigators from article one predicted a three-way interaction between the opponent's emotion, the participant's need for closure, and negotiation round, where as only participants with a low need for closure would make lower demands to a frustrated or angry opponent than to a happy opponent: This effect would become stronger after each consecutive round. Also, the interpersonal effects of anger and happiness on the participant's concessions in the course of the negotiation would be moderated by time pressure. Lastly, this moderating effect would as a result be mediated by participant's degree of information processing. In article two, the hypotheses were that women's in-group bias would be stronger than men's, people of both sexes report greater liking for women than men because of the fact that women are more "communal", infants are more likely to copy their mother's facial expressions compared to their father's, as a group men are more likely than women to commit
             murder, assault, and other violent crimes, and men report greater liking for sex than women.
             These investigators were trying to answer the question whether other sources of implicit attitudes, including cognitive balance and emotional condition...