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Abstract
In their article, “People Who Need People (and Some Who Think They Don’t): On Compensatory Personal and Social Means of Goal Pursuit,” Milyavsky et al. (this issue) put forward an elegant model of the interconnection of personal and social means in the process of attaining important goals. The postulates and hypotheses are consistent with several strains of theory and research across a diverse set of literatures, and the integration is creative and generative. In my commentary, I discuss how the Agency-Assistance Model (AAM) would predict behavior within a close relationship or transactive goal system. I thus attempt to consider the intersection of AAM with my own research and thinking on these issues as I have characterized them (with my colleagues Eli Finkel and Michelle van Dellen) in our work on Transactive Goal Dynamics (TGD) theory.
Milyavsky等人(本期)在他们的文章《需要人的人(以及一些认为他们不需要的人):论追求目标的补偿性个人和社会手段》中,提出了实现重要目标过程中个人和社会方式相互联系的优雅模型。这些假设和假设与一系列不同文献中的几种理论和研究是一致的,并且这种整合是创造性的和生成性的。在我的评论中,我讨论了机构援助模型(AAM)如何预测密切关系或交易目标系统中的行为。因此,我试图考虑AAM与我自己对这些问题的研究和思考的交叉点,正如我(与我的同事Eli Finkel和Michelle van Dellen)在我们关于跨主动目标动力学(TGD)理论的工作中所描述的那样。
期刊介绍:
Psychological Inquiry serves as an international journal dedicated to the advancement of psychological theory. Each edition features an extensive target article exploring a controversial or provocative topic, accompanied by peer commentaries and a response from the target author(s). Proposals for target articles must be submitted using the Target Article Proposal Form, and only approved proposals undergo peer review by at least three reviewers. Authors are invited to submit their full articles after the proposal has received approval from the Editor.