Interpersonal Accounts: A Social Psychological Perspective - Couverture rigide

Harvey, John; Weber, Ann; Orbuch, Terri

9780631175926: Interpersonal Accounts: A Social Psychological Perspective

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ISBN 10 : 063117592X ISBN 13 : 9780631175926

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1990

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Book by Harvey John H Weber Ann L Orbuch Terri L

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The human is perhaps bestdubbed ′homo narrans′, the story–teller.In our search for meanings we constantly tell stories and makeaccounts to explain events and frame relationships. This bookpresents the first systematic analysis from a psychologicalstandpoint of this universal and fundamental human capacity.

Nowhere is our account–making more evident that at times ofacute personal stress. In divorce and separation, death of aspouse, redundancy or retirement, for example, we deal best withloss when we have worked through its meaning to close, empathicothers. It is in the process of account–making that people look tocreate meaning out of loss.

So fundamental an activity as account–making must, the authorsbelieve, have evolutionary origins. Drawing on the work of Jaynes,they consider the process in relation to the origin of humanconsciousness and the beginnings of story–telling as a humanactivity.

In arguing for the centrality of accounts to our psychology, theauthors are careful to distinguish them from other processes ofattribution and narratization. Nevertheless, the theories developedhere will have a far–reaching impact on the development of socialpsychology and beyond the confines of the descipline too.

Biographie de l'auteur :

John H. Harvey is Professor of Psychology at the Universityof Iowa. He was previously at Vanderbilt and Texas TechUniversities. He is well known for his work on attribution theory,especially as applied to dynamics in close relationships. His booksinclude (with Ickes and Kidd as co–editors) the New Directionsin Attribution Research series (Erblaum, 1976, 1978, 1981),(with Weary) Perspectives on Attributional Processes (W. C.Brown 1981) and (with Kelley et al.) Close Relationships(Freeman 1983).

Ann L. Weber is Associate Professor of Psychology at theUniversity of North Carolina at Asheville. She is author ofchapters in Accounting for Relationships, edited by Burnett,McGhee and Clarke (Methuen, 1987), The State of SocialPsychology, edited by M. Leary (Sage, 1989), andIntimacy, edited by R. Burnett (Salem House, 1990).

Terri L. Orbuch is an assistant professor of sociology atthe University of Michigan. She recently completed a post–doctoralfellowship in the department of psychology at the University ofIowa. She is editor of Close Relationship Loss: TheoreticalApproaches, forthcoming from Springer–Verlag Publishing Co.

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