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Going beyond elementary mechanisms: the strategic interplay between grounded procedures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2021

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Peter Kardos*
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Department of Psychology, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ 07003.peter_kardos@bloomfield.edu
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Abstract

The model presented by Lee and Schwarz provides a novel explanation for the elementary mechanisms of psychological cleansing. I argue that the model could be extended to account for complex instances of psychological cleansing where the grounded procedures are not isolated and the opposing motives of separation and connection are entangled in a strategic interplay.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e11
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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