Interpersonal Cognition

by Baldwin, Mark W.

• ISBN13: 9781593851125
• ISBN10: 159385112X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-23
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Presenting state-of-the-art research from leading investigators, this volume examines the processes by which people understand their interpersonal experiences. Provided are fresh perspectives on how individuals glean social knowledge from past relationships and apply it in the here and now. Also explored are the effects of biases and expectancies about significant others on relationship satisfaction and personal well-being. Broad in scope, the book integrates findings from experimental social psychology with insights from developmental, personality, and clinical psychology. Throughout, chapters strike an appropriate balance between theory and method, offering an understanding of the core issues involved as well as the tools needed to study them.

Author Biography

Mark W. Baldwin, PhD, received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of Waterloo and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan and the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He then spent several years pursuing an opportunity to cowrite and cohost the award-winning children's television series [i]Camp Cariboo[/i]. Returning to academia, Dr. Baldwin taught and researched psychology at the University of Winnipeg for 8 years before assuming his current position, in 1998, in the Department of Psychology at McGill University in Montreal. Along the way, he served as Chair of the Social and Personality section of the Canadian Psychological Association and Associate Editor of the [i]Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin[/i], and coauthored (with Rick Hoyle, Michael Kernis, and Mark Leary) the book [i]Selfhood: Identity, Esteem, Regulation[/i]. His major research interests include interpersonal cognition, self-esteem, and adult attachment theory. Most recently, Dr. Baldwin and his students have been exploring the possibility of designing computer-based exercises to modify maladaptive automatic social cognition and have established the website [i]www.selfesteemgames.mcgill.ca[/i] to report this research.

Table of Contents

The Relational Self and Transference: Evoking Motives, Self-Regulation, and Emotions through Activation of Mental Representations of Significant Others	1	(32)
Susan M. Andersen
S. Adil Saribay
Understanding and Modifying the Relational Schemas Underlying Insecurity	33	(29)
Mark W. Baldwin
Stephane D. Dandeneau
Rejection Sensitivity as an Interpersonal Vulnerability	62	(23)
Janina Pietrzak
Geraldine Downey
Ozlem Ayduk
Interpersonal Cognition and the Quest for Social Acceptance: Inside the Sociometer	85	(18)
Mark R. Leary
Goals and Labors, Friends and Neighbors: Self-Regulation and Interpersonal Relationships	103	(23)
Grainne M. Fitzsimons
James Shah
Tanya L. Chartrand
John A. Bargh
Commitment Calibration with the Relationship Cognition Toolbox	126	(27)
John E. Lydon
Kimberly Burton
Danielle Menzies-Toman
A Relationship-Specific Sense of Felt Security: How Perceived Regard Regulates Relationship-Enhancement Processes	153	(27)
Sandra L. Murray
Jaye Derrick
The Role of Prototypes in Interpersonal Cognition	180	(26)
Beverley Fehr
Including Close Others in the Cognitive Structure of the Self	206	(27)
Arthur Aron
Debra Mashek
Tracy McLaughlin-Volpe
Stephen Wright
Gary Lewandowski
Elaine N. Aron
Mental Representations of Attachment Security: Theoretical Foundation for a Positive Social Psychology	233	(34)
Mario Mikulincer
Phillip R. Shaver
The Four Basic Social Bonds: Structures for Coordinating Interaction	267	(32)
Alan Page Fiske
Nick Haslam
Social Mentalities: A Biopsychosocial and Evolutionary Approach to Social Relationships	299	(35)
Paul Gilbert
Role-Relationship Models: Addressing Maladaptive Interpersonal Patterns and Emotional Distress	334	(25)
Jodene R. Baccus
Mardi J. Horowitz
Interpersonal Schemas: Clinical Theory, Research, and Implications	359	(29)
Polly Scarvalone
Melanie Fox
Jeremy D. Safran
Self as a Society: The Dynamics of Interchange and Power	388	(27)
Hubert J. M. Hermans
An Integrative Review of Theories of Interpersonal Cognition: An Interdependence Theory Perspective	415	(34)
John G. Holmes
Jessica Cameron
Index	449