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Introducing GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION: LESSONS LEARNED FROM IPARTHEORY

Lena Hellblom Sjögren 28 mars 2025, vidaresänder brev från professor. em.

Ronald Rohner emottaget den 27 mars

”Dear colleague,

Sumbleen Ali (my coeditor) and I are pleased to introduce you to our new book on ”Global perspectives on parental acceptance and rejection: Lessons learned from IPARTheory”.  The flyer in the above attachment gives you information about the book that summarizes a great part of what we have learned over the course of 6 1/2 decades with several hundred thousand children and adults on every continent except Antarctica.

Perhaps the most important thing to know about the book is that we have learned three fundamental lessons about human behavior globally. These are:

1. Humans everywhere understand themselves to be cared about or not cared about by the people most important to them in the same four ways. The most important of these people are usually parents in childhood and intimate partners in adulthood. So far, we have found no exceptions to this conclusion anywhere on our planet.
2. If you and I – and all other humans – feel that the people most important to us don’t love us, care about us, appreciate us, or whatever word you want to use (we say, if they reject us) – humans everywhere tend to respond in 10 specific ways. Again, we have found no population exceptions to this conclusion anywhere. There are, however, individuals who are able to deal more effectively than most people with the effects of rejection. Those people are called ”affective copers” in IPARTheory.
3. These two sets of responses are so consistent across cultures, genders, races, languages, and other such defining conditions that we came to think some years ago that they may be embedded in some way in the human brain. We tested that hypothesis here at UConn with a sample of students, half of whom felt seriously rejected by their mothers and fathers and were psychologically maladjusted in the way we know rejected people tend to be. We also had a matched group of students who felt very much loved in childhood by their mothers and fathers and who were psychologically well-adjusted. We ran the two groups in an fMRI experimental procedure and found – as expected – that brain processing of the rejected group was measurably different from brain processing of the love group.

The book provides needed details about these and a great many other conclusions regarding human behavior and parenting culturally and globally.”

Ronald P. Rohner, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus and Director

Ronald and Nancy Rohner Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection, Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut | Storrs | USA

csiar.uconn.edu  

Executive Director & former President | International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance & Rejection

Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology Award | APA

Outstanding International Psychologist Award | APA

Henry David International Mentoring Award | APA

Jean Lau Chin Award for Outstanding Psychologist in International Leadership | APA

Lifetime Achievement Award | SCCR

Rohner’s TEDx UConn talk “They Love Me, They Love Me Not— And Why It Matters”

2025: Global Perspectives on Parental Acceptance and Rejection: Lessons Learned from IPARTheory | Routledge. (Summarizes decades of research on parental acceptance-rejection worldwide.)