Graphic constriction and expansiveness as a function of induced social isolation and social interaction: experimental manipulations and personality effects.

The article focuses on graphic constriction and expansiveness as a function of induced social isolation and social interaction. In previous research, evidence was presented indicating that constriction and expansiveness of graphic expressive behavior co-vary in certain predictable ways with overt indexes of social introversion-extraversion and with general level of emotional disturbance In particular, these studies supported two propositions. Under conditions of low emotional disturbance, overt tendencies toward social extraversion are related to expansiveness in graphic expressive behavior, and overt tendencies toward social introversion are related to constriction in graphic expressive behavior. Under conditions of high emotional disturbance, overt social extraversion tendencies are related to graphic construction, and overt social introversion tendencies are related to graphic expansiveness. Although the evidence obviously was only indirect, it was assumed that constriction and expansiveness of graphic expressive behavior serve as indicators of tendencies toward social isolation and social interaction, respectively.