Suspicious minds: The motive to acquire relationship-threatening information

By William Ickes, Jeremy W Dugosh, Jeffry A. Simpson, C. L. Wilson. 2003

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Revisiting the Foundations of Organizational Distrust (2017, unknown): “, 1975), be unwilling to disclose personal information or commit to a long-term relationship (Cho, 2006), be less willing to interact with those who are distrusted (Kramer, 1999), or be reluctant to cooperate, commit, restore, or maintain relationships (Afifi et al., 2004; Cho, 2006; Ickes et al., 2”
Abusive Supervision Through the Lens of Employee State Paranoia (2014, background): “Beyond safety seeking behaviors, researchers have identified suspicion behaviors as monitoring and testing actions that naturally follow from hypervigilant and paranoid thought (Ickes et al., 2003; Marr et al., 2012).”
"Creeping" or just information seeking? Gender differences in partner monitoring in response to jealousy on Facebook (2014, background): “up (Ickes et al., 2003).”
Workplace victimization: aggression from the target's perspective. (2009, background): “Some evidence in the close relationships literature suggests that people who are strongly motivated to acquire information that reveals harm will suffer from poor relationship quality (Ickes et al. 2003).”