The power of listening at work

AN Kluger, G Itzchakov - Annual Review of Organizational …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Listening is associated with and a likely cause of desired organizational outcomes in
numerous areas, including job performance, leadership, quality of relationships (eg, trust) …

Theory of collective mind

G Shteynberg, JB Hirsh, W Wolf, JA Bargh… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract Theory of mind research has traditionally focused on the ascription of mental states
to a single individual. Here, we introduce a theory of collective mind: the ascription of a …

Fast response times signal social connection in conversation

EM Templeton, LJ Chang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Clicking is one of the most robust metaphors for social connection. But how do we know
when two people" click"? We asked pairs of friends and strangers to talk with each other and …

Listening to understand: The role of high-quality listening on speakers' attitude depolarization during disagreements.

G Itzchakov, N Weinstein, M Leary… - Journal of personality …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Disagreements can polarize attitudes when they evoke defensiveness from the conversation
partners. When a speaker talks, listeners often think about ways to counterargue. This …

Relational diversity in social portfolios predicts well-being

HK Collins, SF Hagerty, J Quoidbach… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
We document a link between the relational diversity of one's social portfolio—the richness
and evenness of relationship types across one's social interactions—and well-being. Across …

Why we gather: A new look, empirically documented, at Émile Durkheim's theory of collective assemblies and collective effervescence

B Rimé, D Páez - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
For Durkheim, individuals' survival and well-being rest on cultural resources and social
belonging that must be revived periodically in collective assemblies. Durkheim's concern …

Shared reality: From sharing-is-believing to merging minds

ET Higgins, M Rossignac-Milon… - Current Directions in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Humans are fundamentally motivated to create a sense of shared reality—the perceived
commonality of inner states (feeling, beliefs, and concerns about the world) with other …

Self-expansion motivation and inclusion of others in self: An updated review

A Aron, G Lewandowski, B Branand… - Journal of Social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper we review the self-expansion model in the context of close relationships,
focusing primarily on work in the last 20 years, considering throughout variation in our …

There is chemistry in social chemistry

I Ravreby, K Snitz, N Sobel - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Nonhuman terrestrial mammals sniff themselves and each other to decide who is friend or
foe. Humans also sniff themselves and each other, but the function of this is unknown …

[HTML][HTML] The Conversational Circumplex: Identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing informational and relational motives in conversation

M Yeomans, ME Schweitzer, AW Brooks - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
The meaning of success in conversation depends on people's goals. Often, individuals
pursue multiple goals simultaneously, such as establishing shared understanding, making a …