110 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
110 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
The phenomenon of commitment is a cornerstone of human social life. Commitments make individuals’ behavior predictable, thereby facilitating the planning and coordination of joint actions involving multiple agents. Moreover, commitments make people willing to rely upon each other, and thereby contribute to sustaining characteristically human social institutions such as jobs, money, government and... Read more
1. Introduction
2. A Brief Overview of Existing Approaches
3. Individual and Social Commitment
4. The Sense of Commitment
5. Empirical Research on the Sense of Commitment
6. Mechanisms of Commitment
7. The Developmental Origins of Commitment
8. Conclusions and Future Directions.
Index
Biography
John Michael is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at BPP University, London, UK, and affiliated faculty member in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Central European University, Vienna, Austria.
