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Close relationships as including other in the self.

Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyPublished 1 February 1991
Arthur Aron, Elaine N. Aron, John Tudor, Greg Nelson
Citations1,761
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SJR score3.87
SNIP3.12

Abstract

The cognitive significance of being in a close relationship is described in terms of including other in the self (in Lewin's sense of overlapping regions of the life space and in James's sense of the self as resources, perspectives, and characteristics). Experiment 1, adapting Liebrand's (1984) deco

Keywords

Psychology