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When conversations flow

... doubt whether you and your friend or partner have enough in common? Would you question your relationships? We spend a large part of our ... of the conversation. More specifically, people infer a sense of belonging and social validation from the fluency of their ... / more

The victim wars: How competitive victimhood stymies reconciliation between conflicting groups

... cessation of hostilities, conflicting groups often return to common spaces, but feelings of distrust, lack of empathy and increasing ... based on conflicts over social or material resources, this sense of victimhood may interplay with group members’ need to compete with ... / more

When the thought of yourself nags you: How failure to attain cultural standards brings suicide on the fringe of consciousness

... 2011). Surprising at the first glance, these results make sense if it is the poor and unhappy who commit suicide in “rich and happy ... words were hang, rope, and vein, referring to the most common means of suicide in Europe, Värnik et al., 2009). Four other fragments ... / more

The dish on gossip: Its origins, functions, and bad reputation

... and its role in society, while also clearing up some common misperceptions about gossip (e.g., that it is completely ... for gossip , Foster (2004) declared that the most common definition may be summarized as “… the exchange of personal ... and opinions with similar others, in order to get a sense of where they stand. For example, if I want to get a sense of how ... / more

Honor in the Past: The Case of Mexico

... everyone within social hierarchies and so along with a sense of self, people within honor societies operated within a sense of their ... was associated with the lower nobility. It was a fairly common honorific that implied membership in the class of hidalgos. He also had ... / more

The Role of Honor and Culture in Group-Based Humiliation, Anger and Shame

... two manners. First, humiliation involves a stronger sense of unfairness and devaluation of self-importance by others than do ... The family in these societies is a group that shares a common identity expressed in the concept of family honor (Mosquera et al., ... / more

Family Honour and the Purity of the Family’s Essence: A Relational Models Approach

... that people often represent their families as sharing a common essence whose purity needs to be protected. According to the laws of ... . In communal sharing relationships people have a sense of shared identity, ignoring the distinctiveness among the members. The ... / more

Handbook of cxperimental existential psychology

... in relation to psychology? We can say that the common denominator of existential philosophy as compared to existential ... lead to its own dangers and limitations, specifically in the sense that existential theories are often more descriptive than prescriptive, ... / more

Are You a “Real Man”? How Men Earn and Prove Manhood Status

... about the security of their manhood? Not in a literal sense, but in the sense that it is relatively easy for men to lose their status ... from childhood to adulthood, embedded within a number of common proverbs that were irrelevant to our research interests (Vandello, ... / more

The Ghost in the System: Where Free Will Lurks in Human Minds

... self-awareness , personal choice, consciousness, and a sense of purpose, the employees demonstrated the hallmarks of what is commonly ... stream of consciousness influence each other to achieve a common higher-order meaning. These higher-order meanings emerge from the  ... / more