Need-to-belong theory

By Roy F. Baumeister. 2012

149 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Respect in Organizations: Feeling Valued as “We” and “Me” (2017, background): “…they found that receiving respect is important to individuals because it satisfies these two core social needs.6 According to Baumeister and Leary (1995: 522; see also Baumeister, 2012, and Gere & MacDonald, 2010), “human beings are fundamentally and pervasively motivated by a need to belong.””
• “I Identify with Her,” “I Identify with Him”: Unpacking the Dynamics of Personal Identification in Organizations (2016, background): “Baumeister and Leary posit that “human beings are fundamentally and pervasively motivated by a need to belong” (1995: 522; see also Baumeister, 2012; cf. Alderfer, 1969; McClelland, 1961).”
• Engaged and Productive Misfits: How Job Crafting and Leisure Activity Mitigate the Negative Effects of Value Incongruence (2016, background): “Baumeister (2012) illustrated this process through the idea of hunger.”