From self to social relationships : an essentially relational perspective on social motivation / Martijn van Zomeren

Author: Zomeren, Martijn van, 1979-
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Copyright Date: ©2016
Physical Description: x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Series

Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Assumptions -- 1.Towards theoretical integration -- Introduction -- The need for dark matter -- A problem -- A solution -- Towards integration and consilience -- 2.A shift from self to selvations -- Introduction -- What is relational essence? -- Too much self-ishness -- Definitions and theories of social motivation -- Selvations and self in evolutionary context? -- pt. II Selvations theory -- 3.Selvations theory I: Value infusion -- Introduction -- What are selvations? -- Knitting together an Asian elephant -- The spider in the web -- Bigger or smaller brains? -- 4.Selvations theory II: Coping with value-infused events -- Introduction -- What is coping? -- Knitting together an African elephant -- The cultural matrix -- A clash of cultures? -- pt. III Implications -- 5.So what? -- Introduction -- So what indeed? -- Implications of selvations theory -- Implications of relational essence -- Implications of integration and consilience -- Epilogue -- More than a metaphor? -- Selvations theory in everyday life -- The undiscovered country.

Summary

What is it that moves and motivates us in our lives? Martijn van Zomeren proposes social relationships are at the essence of this key question and, in a fascinating investigation into human motivation, he develops a novel and integrative psychological theory termed 'selvations theory'. The theory suggests that we are essentially relational beings that seek to regulate relationships in response to felt changes in our network of relationships (selvations). However, we need to do this in culturally appropriate ways and this is where our culturally construed self comes to be of use. 'From self to social relationships' constitutes a powerful argument about human essence, integrating major theories in and around psychology, which has strong implications for the study and practice of social motivation.

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ISBN

9781107093799 (hardcover)
1107093791 (hardcover)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2016

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Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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