Agency and Communion in Social Psychology

Agency and Communion in Social Psychology examines the different perspectives of the agency-communion framework in relation to evolutionary psychology, social cognition, and applied contexts, and will be essential reading for students and academics in social psychology interested in this topic.

1. Introduction: The fundamental dimensions of social cognition (Andrea E. Abele & Bogdan Wojciszke)
2. Evolutionary and functional meaning of agency and communion (Oscar Ybarra et al.)
3. Agency and communion in social cognition (Bogdan Wojciszke & Andrea E. Abele)
4. Stereotype Content Model, Twenty Years Later: Communion (Warmth) and Agency (Competence) in Group Images (Susan Fiske)
5. Agency and communion in self-perception (Andrea E. Abele & Nicole Hauke)
6. Agentic and communal forms of self-presentation (Delroy Paulhus)
7. Agentic and communal motives (Kenneth D. Locke)
8. The Agency-Communion Model of Grandiose Narcissism (Jochen Gebauer & Constantine Sedikidis)
9. Agency, communion and gender (Sabine Sczesny & Christa Nater)
10. Power, self-focus and the Big Two (Aleksandra Cislak & Aleksandra Cichocka)
11. The Big Two in politics (Susanne Bruckmüller & Nicole Methner)
12. Compensation and innuendo effects in agency and communion (Vincent Yzerbyt)
13. Dimensional comparison theory and the agency - communion framework (Friederike Helm & Jens Möller)
14. Rethinking the nature and relation of fundamental dimensions of meaning (Alex Koch & Roland Imhoff)