Authors
Daniel Balliet, Joshua M Tybur, Paul AM Van Lange
Publication date
2017/11
Journal
Personality and Social Psychology Review
Volume
21
Issue
4
Pages
361-388
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
Social interactions are characterized by distinct forms of interdependence, each of which has unique effects on how behavior unfolds within the interaction. Despite this, little is known about the psychological mechanisms that allow people to detect and respond to the nature of interdependence in any given interaction. We propose that interdependence theory provides clues regarding the structure of interdependence in the human ancestral past. In turn, evolutionary psychology offers a framework for understanding the types of information processing mechanisms that could have been shaped under these recurring conditions. We synthesize and extend these two perspectives to introduce a new theory: functional interdependence theory (FIT). FIT can generate testable hypotheses about the function and structure of the psychological mechanisms for inferring interdependence. This new perspective offers insight into …
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Scholar articles
D Balliet, JM Tybur, PAM Van Lange - Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2017