Interaction concepts of personality

Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Original Title Page
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 Contents
 Foreword
 Acknowledgments
 Chapter 1 Introduction
 ORIENTATION AND RATIONALE
 The nature of psychology
 The nature of personality
 The field of inquiry
 SOME FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES
 The problem of perception
 The problem of unconscious mentation
 The problem of circularity
 The problem of volition and purpose
 The problem of temporal focus
 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
 A hierarchy of languages
 Levels of communication
 PLAN OF THE BOOK
 Chapter 2 Sullivan's Conceptions: Beginnings of a System THE INTERPERSONAL NATURE OF PERSONALITYHUMAN INFANCY
 Innate tensions
 The experience of the infant
 Personifications
 Anxiety
 LATER DEVELOPMENTS AND ACQUISITIONS
 Language development
 Modes of learning
 The self dynamism
 Residual aspects of the personality
 Integrating tendencies
 The theorem of reciprocal emotion
 THE DEVELOPMENTAL ERAS
 The juvenile era
 The preadolescent era
 Early adolescence
 Late adolescence
 DISTORTIONS OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
 Mechanisms of defense
 An example of "mild" mental disorder: Jealousy
 An example of more serious mental disorder: Hysteria An example of severe mental disorder: SchizophreniaCONCLUSION
 Chapter 3 Learning Interpersonal Behavior
 BASIC PROCESSES IN HUMAN LEARNING
 Action learning
 Cognitive learning
 PLANS AND STRATEGIES: AN INTEGRATION
 The organization of behavior
 Tactics and strategy of behavior
 Anxiety and conflict
 OVERVIEW
 Interpersonal behavior and the habits of squirrels
 Chapter 4 Varieties of Interpersonal Behavior
 A TAXONOMY OF INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR
 A technical orientation
 Empirical studies: Factorial
 Empirical studies: Circumplicial
 The Leary framework
 Additional features of Leary's system THE ACHIEVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF INTERACTIONAL BALANCEBalance theory and interpersonal relations
 The economics of interaction
 Chapter 5 Negotiating Interpersonal Transactions
 REWARDS AND COSTS
 Interaction sequences
 The interaction-outcome matrix
 The evaluation of outcomes
 INTERACTION-OUTCOME PROCESSES: TWO EXAMPLES
 A handsome lad and a pretty maid
 Mr. and Mrs. X: A matrix analysis
 GENERALIZED INTERPERSONAL STYLES AND THEIR INTERACTIONAL ASPECTS
 Interaction of personal styles: A matrix conception
 Complementarity as a persistent force in interaction POWER AND DEPENDENCE IN DYADIC RELATIONSHIPSFunctional characteristics of interpersonal power
 Consequences of power
 The reduction of power differentials
 Power relations and the maintenance of security
 Chapter 6 Contractual Arrangements in Interpersonal Relations
 THE DEVELOPMENT OF NORMS
 Norms and the use of power
 The handsome lad and the pretty maid revisited
 Roles
 IMPLICIT CONTRACTS IN DYADIC INTERACTION
 The problem of stylistic articulation
 The ad hoc interpersonal contract
 FRAUDULENT INTERPERSONAL CONTRACTS
 Simple transactional reversals
 Other fraudulent operations