{"product_id":"agency-and-communion-in-social-andrea-abele-9781138570276","title":"Agency and Communion in Social Psychology","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrea Abele\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138570273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138570276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d","brand":"Andrea Abele","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440842977535,"sku":"9781138570276","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_78b5965c-3421-45f6-b544-fb3b8a202f38.jpg?v=1777187034","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/agency-and-communion-in-social-andrea-abele-9781138570276","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}