Martijn van Zomeren is Professor of Cultural and Political Psychology of Social Relationships at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He received his PhD cum laude from the University of Amsterdam in 2006, received various dissertation awards, early career awards, and grants, and is an international expert on collective action, activism and social change. The main theme in his work is the importance of theoretical integration in the various fields that he has contributed to, as reflected in his 2016 book, published by Cambridge University Press, entitled From Self to Social Relationships: An Essentially Relational Perspective on Social Motivation.John F. (Jack) Dovidio, who received his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1977, is currently the Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology and Public Health, as well as Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. His research interests are in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; social power and nonverbal communication; and altruism and helping. His scholarship focuses on understanding the dynamics of intergroup relations and ways to reduce intergroup bias and conflict.

• Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: The Human EssenceJohn F. Dovidio and Martijn Van Zomeren SECTION ONE: INDIVIDUALITY Chapter 2: An Existential Psychological Perspective on the Human EssenceDaniel Sullivan and Roman Palitsky Chapter 3: Masters of Our Universe: The Existential AnimalTravis Proulx Chapter 4: Free Will and the Human Essence: Responsible Autonomy, Meaning and Cultural ParticipationRoy F. Baumeister Chapter 5: Essential Self-Evaluation Motives: Caring About Who We AreAiden P. Gregg and Constantine Sedikides Chapter 6: The Tripartite Motivational Human Essence: Value, Control, and Truth Working TogetherJames F.M. Cornwell and E. Tory Higgins Chapter 7: People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human EssenceHans IJzerman and Lotje J. Hogerzeil Chapter 8: The Obviousness and Obvious Limits of Individuality as Human EssenceMartijn van Zomeren SECTION TWO: SOCIALITY Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior as a Human EssenceDavid A. Schroeder and William G. Graziano Chapter 10: The Human Essence in Helping Relations: Belongingness, Independence and StatusArie Nadler Chapter 11: Does Aggression Make us Human?Joseph A. Vandello and Curtis Puryear Chapter 12: Morality and Social IdentityNaomi Ellemers Chapter 13: Justice and Human EssenceTom R. Tyler Chapter 14: Biology as Destiny or as Freedom? On Reflexivity, Collectivity and the Realization of Human PotentialStephen Reicher Chapter 15: Six Social Elements in Search of an EssenceRoger Giner-Sorolla SECTION THREE: CULTURAL EMBEDDEDNESS Chapter 16: Talking about Humanness: Is Human Essence Talk a Human Essence?Yoshihisa Kashima Chapter 17: Promotion or Preventing Change Through Political Participation: About Political Actors, Movements, and NetworksBert Klandermans Chapter 18: Values and the Human BeingJan Cieciuch and Shalom H. Schwartz Chapter 19: The Relational Essence of Cultural Psychology: Decolonizing Love and (Well-) BeingGlenn Adams, Sara Estrada-Villalta, and Tugçe Kurtis Chapter 20: Human Essence: Toward a Relational ReconstructionKenneth J. Gergen Chapter 21: Human Essences and Cultural Embeddedness: A Gene-Culture Co-Evolution PerspectiveRonald Fischer Chapter 22: Human Essence in Conclusion: Why Psychology Needs a Bigger Picture and Some Suggestions on How to Get ThereMartijn van Zomeren and John F. Dovidio

Martijn van Zomeren is Professor of Cultural and Political Psychology of Social Relationships at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He received his PhD cum laude from the University of Amsterdam in 2006, received various dissertation awards, early career awards, and grants, and is an international expert on collective action, activism and social change. The main theme in his work is the importance of theoretical integration in the various fields that he has contributed to, as reflected in his 2016 book, published by Cambridge University Press, entitled From Self to Social Relationships: An Essentially Relational Perspective on Social Motivation.John F. (Jack) Dovidio, who received his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1977, is currently the Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology and Public Health, as well as Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. His research interests are in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; social power and nonverbal communication; and altruism and helping. His scholarship focuses on understanding the dynamics of intergroup relations and ways to reduce intergroup bias and conflict.

• Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: The Human EssenceJohn F. Dovidio and Martijn Van Zomeren SECTION ONE: INDIVIDUALITY Chapter 2: An Existential Psychological Perspective on the Human EssenceDaniel Sullivan and Roman Palitsky Chapter 3: Masters of Our Universe: The Existential AnimalTravis Proulx Chapter 4: Free Will and the Human Essence: Responsible Autonomy, Meaning and Cultural ParticipationRoy F. Baumeister Chapter 5: Essential Self-Evaluation Motives: Caring About Who We AreAiden P. Gregg and Constantine Sedikides Chapter 6: The Tripartite Motivational Human Essence: Value, Control, and Truth Working TogetherJames F.M. Cornwell and E. Tory Higgins Chapter 7: People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human EssenceHans IJzerman and Lotje J. Hogerzeil Chapter 8: The Obviousness and Obvious Limits of Individuality as Human EssenceMartijn van Zomeren SECTION TWO: SOCIALITY Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior as a Human EssenceDavid A. Schroeder and William G. Graziano Chapter 10: The Human Essence in Helping Relations: Belongingness, Independence and StatusArie Nadler Chapter 11: Does Aggression Make us Human?Joseph A. Vandello and Curtis Puryear Chapter 12: Morality and Social IdentityNaomi Ellemers Chapter 13: Justice and Human EssenceTom R. Tyler Chapter 14: Biology as Destiny or as Freedom? On Reflexivity, Collectivity and the Realization of Human PotentialStephen Reicher Chapter 15: Six Social Elements in Search of an EssenceRoger Giner-Sorolla SECTION THREE: CULTURAL EMBEDDEDNESS Chapter 16: Talking about Humanness: Is Human Essence Talk a Human Essence?Yoshihisa Kashima Chapter 17: Promotion or Preventing Change Through Political Participation: About Political Actors, Movements, and NetworksBert Klandermans Chapter 18: Values and the Human BeingJan Cieciuch and Shalom H. Schwartz Chapter 19: The Relational Essence of Cultural Psychology: Decolonizing Love and (Well-) BeingGlenn Adams, Sara Estrada-Villalta, and Tugçe Kurtis Chapter 20: Human Essence: Toward a Relational ReconstructionKenneth J. Gergen Chapter 21: Human Essences and Cultural Embeddedness: A Gene-Culture Co-Evolution PerspectiveRonald Fischer Chapter 22: Human Essence in Conclusion: Why Psychology Needs a Bigger Picture and Some Suggestions on How to Get ThereMartijn van Zomeren and John F. Dovidio

Martijn van Zomeren is Professor of Cultural and Political Psychology of Social Relationships at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He received his PhD cum laude from the University of Amsterdam in 2006, received various dissertation awards, early career awards, and grants, and is an international expert on collective action, activism and social change. The main theme in his work is the importance of theoretical integration in the various fields that he has contributed to, as reflected in his 2016 book, published by Cambridge University Press, entitled From Self to Social Relationships: An Essentially Relational Perspective on Social Motivation.John F. (Jack) Dovidio, who received his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1977, is currently the Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology and Public Health, as well as Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. His research interests are in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; social power and nonverbal communication; and altruism and helping. His scholarship focuses on understanding the dynamics of intergroup relations and ways to reduce intergroup bias and conflict.

• Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: The Human EssenceJohn F. Dovidio and Martijn Van Zomeren SECTION ONE: INDIVIDUALITY Chapter 2: An Existential Psychological Perspective on the Human EssenceDaniel Sullivan and Roman Palitsky Chapter 3: Masters of Our Universe: The Existential AnimalTravis Proulx Chapter 4: Free Will and the Human Essence: Responsible Autonomy, Meaning and Cultural ParticipationRoy F. Baumeister Chapter 5: Essential Self-Evaluation Motives: Caring About Who We AreAiden P. Gregg and Constantine Sedikides Chapter 6: The Tripartite Motivational Human Essence: Value, Control, and Truth Working TogetherJames F.M. Cornwell and E. Tory Higgins Chapter 7: People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human EssenceHans IJzerman and Lotje J. Hogerzeil Chapter 8: The Obviousness and Obvious Limits of Individuality as Human EssenceMartijn van Zomeren SECTION TWO: SOCIALITY Chapter 9: Prosocial Behavior as a Human EssenceDavid A. Schroeder and William G. Graziano Chapter 10: The Human Essence in Helping Relations: Belongingness, Independence and StatusArie Nadler Chapter 11: Does Aggression Make us Human?Joseph A. Vandello and Curtis Puryear Chapter 12: Morality and Social IdentityNaomi Ellemers Chapter 13: Justice and Human EssenceTom R. Tyler Chapter 14: Biology as Destiny or as Freedom? On Reflexivity, Collectivity and the Realization of Human PotentialStephen Reicher Chapter 15: Six Social Elements in Search of an EssenceRoger Giner-Sorolla SECTION THREE: CULTURAL EMBEDDEDNESS Chapter 16: Talking about Humanness: Is Human Essence Talk a Human Essence?Yoshihisa Kashima Chapter 17: Promotion or Preventing Change Through Political Participation: About Political Actors, Movements, and NetworksBert Klandermans Chapter 18: Values and the Human BeingJan Cieciuch and Shalom H. Schwartz Chapter 19: The Relational Essence of Cultural Psychology: Decolonizing Love and (Well-) BeingGlenn Adams, Sara Estrada-Villalta, and Tugçe Kurtis Chapter 20: Human Essence: Toward a Relational ReconstructionKenneth J. Gergen Chapter 21: Human Essences and Cultural Embeddedness: A Gene-Culture Co-Evolution PerspectiveRonald Fischer Chapter 22: Human Essence in Conclusion: Why Psychology Needs a Bigger Picture and Some Suggestions on How to Get ThereMartijn van Zomeren and John F. Dovidio