Shared Reality

E. Tory Higgins is the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Professor of Business, and Director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the author of Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works (Oxford, 2012). He has received the Distinguished Scientist Award (the Society of Experimental Social Psychology), the Anneliese Maier Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), the William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science (the American Psychological Society), and the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. He is also a recipient of Columbia University's Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Ambady Award for Mentoring Excellence (Society for Personality and Social Psychology).

Introduction

Part I: The Emergence of Shared Reality

Chapter 1: Sharing Is Believing
Chapter 2: Childhood Development of Shared Reality: Infants & Toddlers
Chapter 3: Childhood Development of Shared Reality: Preschoolers & Schoolers
Chapter 4: The Roots of Human Shared Reality

Part II: How Shared Reality Makes Us Human

Chapter 5: What We Feel
Chapter 6: What We Know: More Than Meets the Eye
Chapter 7: Our Sense of Self: Who Am I? How Am I Doing?
Chapter 8: Our Attitudes & Opinions: Experiencing the Subjective As Objective
Chapter 9: What We Strive For & Value
Chapter 10: How We Strive
Chapter 11: How We Get Along: Bringing Us Together & Tearing Us Apart

Epilogue: It Begins With Shared Relevance