Journal article
Commonality, Sociality and Understanding in Acquaintance
Journal of constructivist psychology, Vol.38(1), pp.24-35
01/02/2025
DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2023.2294319
Abstract
Kelly’s insights about Sociality and Commonality can help explain the development of acquaintance, through discovery of different depths and types of commonalities that in turn enhance different possibilities for sociality and playing social roles in relation to one another. Kelly’s approach emphasizes that psychological processes are not just abstract similarities that may exist but not be known. Rather, knowing that someone is similar to oneself is a far different psychological state from merely being similar to someone but not knowing it. Working through some of the ways in which psychological similarity is manifested in talk and behavior, the paper elucidates transitions through different levels of acquaintance in ways that have applications in team building and group cohesion. The paper also connects the development of relationships to previous work on relational construing by Procter and Winter,.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Commonality, Sociality and Understanding in Acquaintance
- Creators
- Steve Duck - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of constructivist psychology, Vol.38(1), pp.24-35
- DOI
- 10.1080/10720537.2023.2294319
- ISSN
- 1072-0537
- eISSN
- 1521-0650
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 12/18/2023
- Date published
- 01/02/2025
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984539758502771
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