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What makes us human is our special motivation to share with others how we feel, what we believe, and what we want to happen in the future. We want to share with others what is real about the world. Shared reality is crucial to what we believe¿sharing is believing. It is central to our sense of self, what we strive for and how we strive. It is basic to how we get along with others. It brings us together in fellowship and companionship, but it also tears us apart bycreating in-group "bubbles" that conflict with one another. Our shared realities are the best of us, and the worst of us.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Part I: The Emergence of Shared Reality
- Chapter 1: Sharing Is Believing
- Chapter 2: Childhood Development of Shared Reality: Infants and Toddlers
- Chapter 3: Childhood Development of Shared Reality: Preschoolers and Schoolers
- Chapter 4: The Roots of Human Shared Reality
- Part II: How Shared Reality Makes Us Human
- Chapter 5: What We Feel
- Chapter 6: What We Know: More Than Meets the Eye
- Chapter 7: Our Sense of Self: Who Am I? How Am I Doing?
- Chapter 8: Our Attitudes and Opinions: Experiencing the Subjective As Objective
- Chapter 9: What We Strive For and Value
- Chapter 10: How We Strive
- Chapter 11: How We Get Along: Bringing Us Together and Tearing Us Apart
- Epilogue: It Begins With Shared Relevance
Über den Autor / die Autorin
E. Tory Higgins is the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Professor of Business, and Director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the author of
Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works (Oxford, 2012). He has received the Distinguished Scientist Award (the Society of Experimental Social Psychology), the Anneliese Maier Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), the William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science (the American Psychological Society), and the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. He is also a recipient of Columbia University's Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence (Society for Personality and Social Psychology).
Zusammenfassung
What does it mean to be human? Why do we feel and behave in the ways that we do? The classic answer is that we have a special kind of intelligence. But to understand what we are as humans, we also need to know what we are like motivationally. And what is central to this story, what is special about human motivation, is that humans want to share with others their inner experiences about the world--share how they feel, what they believe, and what they want to happen in the future. They want to create a shared reality with others. People have a shared reality together when they experience having in common a feeling about something, a belief about something, or a concern about something. They feel connected to another person or group by knowing that this person or group sees the world the same way that they do--they share what is real about the world. In this work, Dr. Higgins describes how our human motivation for shared reality evolved in our species, and how it develops in our children as shared feelings, shared practices, and shared goals and roles. Shared reality is crucial to what we believe--sharing is believing. It is central to our sense of self, what we strive for and how we strive. It is basic to how we get along with others. It brings us together in fellowship and companionship, but it also tears us apart by creating in-group "bubbles" that conflict with one another. Our shared realities are the best of us, and the worst of us.
Zusatztext
In this fascinating book, one of America's greatest research psychologists addresses a central if often overlooked feature of human nature. Combining provocative research findings with entertaining anecdotes, Higgins shows how people match their private opinions to what they believe others think. Anyone interested in the interpersonal dimension of the human mind should read this book.
