PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harry Stack Sullivan, Femininity, Masculinity
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Dimensions of human existence: agency, focus on the self, formation of separations, striving for expansion and elevation of self, communion, focus on others, formation of connections, striving for contact and congregation with others. We are products of the evolutionary process : getting along . Safety & proximity maintenance (communion: getting ahead . We are products of socialization processes : femininity nurturance & cooperation. The product of sex-segregated play ( tea parties ) Perpetuated by home-maker roles (communion: masculinity dominance & competition. The product of sex-segregated play ( war games ) Leary and colleagues search for a content description of normal and maladaptive interpersonal behaviour (1950s: in verbs (actions) & adjectives (traits, in everyday & extreme behaviours, 16 categorical segments (a p, ordered into a circle. Interpersonal processes: complementarity, every action ends to initiative, invite, or evoke a complementary response that leads to a repetition of the original action.
