Communal and agentic content in social cognition: A dual perspective model

AE Abele, B Wojciszke - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2014 - Elsevier
We summarize and integrate a large body of research showing that agency and communion
constitute two fundamental dimensions of content in social cognition. Agentic content refers …

Cultural norm fulfillment, interpersonal belonging, or getting ahead? A large-scale cross-cultural test of three perspectives on the function of self-esteem.

JE Gebauer, C Sedikides, J Wagner… - Journal of Personality …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
What is the function of self-esteem? We classified relevant theoretical work into 3
perspectives. The cultural norm-fulfillment perspective regards self-esteem a result of …

Why and when is older better? The role of brand heritage and of the product category in the evaluation of brand longevity

F Pecot, A Merchant, V de Barnier - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Different streams in marketing literature report a positive effect from longevity claims
(eg,'since 1840') on perceptions of quality. This paper integrates these different streams …

Christian self-enhancement.

JE Gebauer, C Sedikides, A Schrade - Journal of Personality and …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
People overestimate themselves in domains that are central to their self-concept. Critically,
the psychological status of this “self-centrality principle” remains unclear. One view regards …

Agency‐communion and interest in prosocial behavior: Social motives for assimilation and contrast explain sociocultural inconsistencies

JE Gebauer, C Sedikides, O Lüdtke… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the “prosocial personality” is a classic project in personality psychology.
However, personality traits have been elusive predictors of prosocial behavior, with …

From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: the moderating role of narcissism

O Bialobrzeska, T Wildschut, C Sedikides - Self and Identity, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one's past, is a social, self-relevant, and ambivalent
(albeit predominantly positive) emotion. It fosters tenderness, social connectedness, life …

Temporal comparisons in a social world

AE Wilson, E Shanahan - Social comparison, judgment, and …, 2020 - books.google.com
There are few topics that inspire greater interest for individuals than themselves. People
contemplate the self with considerable frequency, evaluate others in reference to the self …

Which basic rules underlie social judgments? Agency follows a zero-sum principle and communion follows a non-zero-sum principle

M Dufner, D Leising… - Personality and Social …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
How are people who generally see others positively evaluated themselves? We propose
that the answer to this question crucially hinges on the content domain: We hypothesize that …

Feeling torn when everything seems right: Semantic incongruence causes felt ambivalence

JE Gebauer, GR Maio… - Personality and Social …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The co-occurrence of positive and negative attributes of an attitude object typically accounts
for less than a quarter of the variance in felt ambivalence toward these objects, rendering …

The relationship between congruent dimensions of the self and nostalgia

A Austin - 2016 - search.proquest.com
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of agentic and communal trait-
narrative congruence on nostalgia and to replicate previous research showing that self …