Self-Promotive Interdependence: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation

许多研究不足的人群在规模和社会重要性上都在增长，但心理学文献并没有探讨他们的动机或驱动他们行为的行为过程的重要差异。此外，在心理学研究中，人们越来越多地从不同的角度来理解情境对人类核心动机的影响，本研究利用以往的研究方法，对人类动机背后的心理特征进行了更全面的解释。本研究探讨了在许多社会情境中普遍存在的自我促进的相互依赖的心理特征。这种形式的社会动机反映了那些被驱使去实现目标和奖励的人，但他们认为他们的成功主要是为了支持他们的家庭和社区（即，关注他们与他人的相互依赖性）。因此，它不同于在某些情况下占主导地位的自我推销的想法，在这些情况下，自我推销通常会实现个人的愿望和目标，促进独立于其他人。收集的数据包括调查，实验和跨社会背景的实时评估，以比较这些心理特征。通过比较这些动机，这项工作旨在了解自我促进的相互依赖的独特特征，并探索其心理和行为后果。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Many understudied populations are growing in size and in societal importance, yet the psychological literature has not explored their motivations or important differences underlying behavioral processes that drive their actions. Further, there has been a growing effort to include more varied perspectives in psychological research and to appreciate contextual influences on core human motives, and the current work leverages past approaches to build a more comprehensive account of the psychological characteristics underlying people's motivations.This project investigates the psychological characteristic of self-promotive interdependence, which is common in many social contexts. This form of social motivation reflects people who are driven to achieve goals and rewards, but they see their success as important primarily for supporting their families and communities (i.e., focusing on their interdependence with other people). Thus, it is different from the idea of self-promotion predominant in circumstances, where self-promotion often fulfills individual aspirations and goals, promoting independence from other people. The data collected include surveys, experiments, and real-time assessments across social contexts to compare these psychological characteristics. By comparing these motives, the work aims to understand the unique characteristics of self-promotive interdependence and to explore its psychological and behavioral consequences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.