"I-I" AND "I-ME": TRANSPOSING BUBER's INTERPERSONAL ATTITUDES TO THE INTRAPERSONAL PLANE

‘i-i’ and ‘i-me’: Transposing Buber’s Interpersonal Attitudes to the Intrapersonal Plane

Hermans’ polyphonic model of the self proposes that dialogical relationships can be established between multiple I-positions (e.g. Hermans, 2001a). There have been few attempts, however, to explicitly characterise the forms that these intrapersonal relationships may take. Drawing on Buber’s (1958) distinction between the ‘I-Thou’ and ‘I-It’ attitude, it is proposed that intrapersonal relationsh...

Seeing I to I: a pathway to interpersonal connectedness.

The authors introduce the construct of I-sharing--the belief that one shares an identical subjective experience with another person--and the role it plays in liking. In Studies 1-3, participants indicated their liking for an objectively similar and an objectively dissimilar person, one of whom I-shared with them and the other of whom did not. Participants preferred the objectively similar perso...

I-25: Changing Attitudes in Infertility Management

I-19: The Future of Medical Education: from The Classroom to i-tunes

Medical training has been lately the subject of intense scrutiny. The knowledge transfer approach has shifted focus on the trainee as an active participant in the education process. The traditional view that learning stems from the transmission of knowledge, has recently been challenged. Although controversial, some suggest that a student can maximize this learning process when educators tailor...

I-7: Maternal Signalling to the Placenta

Background: Though it is well established that maternal blood-borne signals influence highly the growth of the placenta, the mechanisms are not known. In vitro trophoblast culture models are limited by an inability to reconstruct the polarised bilayer of the human hemochorial placenta. We have used a first trimester villous tissue explant system to investigate how growth factors interact with p...