Agency and communication in social psychology / Andrea E. Abele and Bogdan Wojciszke

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the big two of agency and communion as an overarching framework in psychology / Andrea E. Abele & Bogdan Wojciszke
Connect and strive to survive and thrive : the evolutionary meaning of communion and agency / Todd Chan, Iris Wang, & Oscar Ybarra
Agency and communion in social cognition / Bogdan Wojciszke and Andrea E. Abele
Warmth and competence are parallels to communion and agency : stereotype content mode / Susan T. Fiske
Agency and communion in self-concept and in self-esteem / A. E. Abele & N. Hauke, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Agentic and communal social motives / Kenneth D. Locke
The big two dimensions of desirability / D. L. Paulhus
Agency and communion in grandiose narcissism / Jochen E. Gebauer and Constantine Sedikides
Agency and communion : their implications for gender stereotypes and gender identities / Sabine Sczesny, Christa Nater, & Alice H. Eagly
Dimensional comparison theory and the agency : communion framework / Friederike Helm & Jens Möller
The dimensional compensation model : reality and strategic constraints on warmth and competence in intergroup perceptions / Vincent Yzerbyt
Power, self-focus and the big two / Aleksandra Cislak and Aleksandra Cichocka
The "big two" in citizens' perception of politicians / Susanne Bruckmüller & Nicole Methner
Rethinking the nature and relation of fundamental dimensions of meaning / Alex Koch and Roland Imhoff

"What are the ultimate motives that instigate individuals’ behaviours? What are the aims of social perception? How can an individuals’ behaviour be described both from the perspective of the actor and from the perspective of an observer? These are the basic questions that this book addresses using its proposed agency-communion framework. Agency (competence, assertiveness) refers to existence of an organism as an individual, to "getting ahead" and to individual goal-pursuit; communion (warmth, morality) refers to participation of an individual in a larger organism, to "getting along" and to forming bonds. Each chapter is written by experts in the field and use the agency-communion framework to explore a wide variety of topics, such as stereotypes, self-esteem, personality, power, and politics. The reader will profit from the deep insights given by leading researchers. The variety of theoretical approaches and empirical contributions shows that the parsimonious and simple structure of two types of content in behavior, motives, personality, self-concept, stereotypes, and more to build an overarching frame to different phenomena studied in psychology." -- Amazon.com