Social Cognition, Motivation, and Interaction How Do People Respond to Threats in Social Interactions?

• Main Author: Eva Jonas (auth)
• Other Authors: Christina Muhlberger (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; motivational-affective state; motivated behavior; discrepancy; motivated cognition; threat; Loop2Loop model
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

f we want to understand people's responses to threats in social interactions we can distinguish between three levels of analysis:On a social level of analysis we can describe people's interpersonal behavior, on a cognitive level we can identify corresponding information processing mechanis...