Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The fundamental dimensions of social cognition (Andrea E. Abele & Bogdan Wojciszke)

2. Evolutionary and functional meaning of agency and communion (Oscar Ybarra et al.)

3. Agency and communion in social cognition (Bogdan Wojciszke & Andrea E. Abele)

4. Stereotype Content Model, Twenty Years Later: Communion (Warmth) and Agency (Competence) in Group Images (Susan Fiske)

5. Agency and communion in self-perception (Andrea E. Abele & Nicole Hauke)

6. Agentic and communal forms of self-presentation (Delroy Paulhus)

7. Agentic and communal motives (Kenneth D. Locke)

8. The Agency-Communion Model of Grandiose Narcissism (Jochen Gebauer & Constantine Sedikidis)

9. Agency, communion and gender (Sabine Sczesny & Christa Nater)

10. Power, self-focus and the Big Two (Aleksandra Cislak & Aleksandra Cichocka)

11. The Big Two in politics (Susanne Bruckmüller & Nicole Methner)

12. Compensation and innuendo effects in agency and communion (Vincent Yzerbyt)

13. Dimensional comparison theory and the agency – communion framework (Friederike Helm & Jens Möller)

14. Rethinking the nature and relation of fundamental dimensions of meaning (Alex Koch & Roland Imhoff)

About the Author

Andrea E. Abele is a professor at Friedrich-Alexander University (Erlangen, Germany). Her research interests are social cognition and the fundamental dimensions of social judgment and behavior. She has published about 220 articles. She is a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Science and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.

Bogdan Wojciszke is a professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Sopot, Poland). His research interests are social cognition and moral judgments and has published 11 books and over 160 papers. He is a full member of Polish Academy of Science and a fellow of Association for Psychological Science.