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  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Interpersonal Relationships

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  • Close relationships facilitate the creation and maintenance of shared meaning systems.
  • Interpersonal understanding is crucial for forming lasting social bonds.
  • Transference, the evocation of significant-other knowledge with new individuals, impacts social cognition and behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review literature on interpersonal meaning and transference.
  • To highlight research on shared meaning systems within transference.
  • To explore how shared realities influence interpersonal perception and self-regulation.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of meaning in relationships and transference.
  • Selective review of research on transference in interpersonal perception.
  • Highlighting recent studies on shared meaning systems in transference.

Main Results:

  • Values and beliefs from close relationships are linked to significant-other knowledge in memory.
  • Shared realities are indirectly activated via transference when cues evoke significant-other knowledge.
  • Activated shared beliefs influence pursuit and protection of these beliefs in new interactions.

Conclusions:

  • Shared meaning systems, developed in close relationships, play a key role in transference.
  • Transference of shared beliefs influences interpersonal perception, self-regulation, and relational dynamics.
  • The co-construction of shared reality is relevant to understanding transference processes.