Introduction: Social Cognition, Psychodynamic Psychology, and the Representation and Processing of Emotionally Significant Information |
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Authors: | Timothy J. Strauman |
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Affiliation: | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT This special issue examines two perspectives on how people comprehend and respond to significant features of their lives: psychoanalytic psychology and social cognition. The articles included present new empirical findings relevant to die overlap of psychoanalysis and social-cognitive psychology, as well as commentaries from each perspective. This introduction summarizes important conceptual and methodological challenges in the integration of two such distinct approaches to emotionally significant information. |
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