ABSTRACT

This chapter provides easily accessible reviews of the specific topics each one perfect for anything from introducing advanced undergraduates or graduate students to research in an area to informing more senior scientists of the state of knowledge in almost any aspect of selfor interpersonal expectancies. So, even though author was asked to write the Preface for the section on interpersonal expectancies, author want to call your attention to the first section, on self-expectancies, on the chance that you have gotten here without reading it. The first section focuses on self-expectations, which are inherently intertwined with interpersonal expectations. At the same time, the individual chapters are simultaneously the most readable, most comprehensive, and most balanced collection of readings on interpersonal expectancies that author have yet seen.