Shared Reality

E. Tory Higgins is the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Professor of Business, and Director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the author of Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works (Oxford, 2012). He has received the Distinguished Scientist Award (the Society of Experimental Social Psychology), the Anneliese Maier Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), the William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science (the American Psychological Society), and the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. He is also a recipient of Columbia University's Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence (Society for Personality and Social Psychology).

• Introduction Part I: The Emergence of Shared Reality Chapter 1: Sharing Is Believing Chapter 2: Childhood Development of Shared Reality: Infants & ToddlersChapter 3: Childhood Development of Shared Reality: Preschoolers & Schoolers Chapter 4: The Roots of Human Shared Reality Part II: How Shared Reality Makes Us Human Chapter 5: What We FeelChapter 6: What We Know: More Than Meets the EyeChapter 7: Our Sense of Self: Who Am I? How Am I Doing?Chapter 8: Our Attitudes & Opinions: Experiencing the Subjective As ObjectiveChapter 9: What We Strive For & Value Chapter 10: How We StriveChapter 11: How We Get Along: Bringing Us Together & Tearing Us Apart Epilogue: It Begins With Shared Relevance

Higgins (Columbia Univ.), himself the author of regulatory focus theory, here shares his encyclopedic knowledge of social psychology to argue that what makes us human is the evolutionary advantage conferred by our acquired ability to share realities with each otherThe book will be of particular value to those who share Higgins's interest in promotion and prevention typologies of human behavior, yet it certainly will delight most social psychologists. The literature and research cited includes almost every important contributor and significant experiment in the discipline over the past 50 years.