Taking the Social Origins of Human Nature Seriously: Toward a More Imperialist Social Psychology
Abstract
To recognize that human beings are adapted for social living is fundamental to the science of human psychology. I argue that the development of broad social psychological theory would benefit from taking this basic premise more seriously. We need to pay more attention to the implications for personality and social psychology of recognizing that all of the building blocks of human psychology--cognition, emotion, motivation--have been shaped by the demands of social interdependence. In this article I illustrate the generative potential of this basic premise for development of more expansive social theory.
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Humans are inherently social beings whose lives are characterized by obligatory interdependence.
“Humans are inherently social beings, whose lives are charac- terized by what Caporael and Brewer (1995) referred to as ob- ligatory interdependence (Brewer, 2004; Caporael, 2001; A.P. Fiske, 1991).”
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- Authors
- Brewer, M. B.
- Affiliations
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Brewer, Marilynn B.
- ORCID
- Brewer, Marilynn B.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-05
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 107-113
- ISSN
- 1088-8683 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7957
- OpenAlex
- W2121675326
- Cited by
- 149
- References
- 39
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- FWCI
- 6.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- social interdependence, social psychology theory, personality, cognitive evolution, evolution of emotions, social adaptation
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Affect, Cognition, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Motivation, Personality, Psychology, Social, Social Behavior
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