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How the Need to Belong Influences Human Behavior and Motivation

By Kendra Cherry — 2020

The need to belong, also known as belongingness, refers to a human emotional need to affiliate with and be accepted by members of a group.

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The Second Identity Crisis: How to Deal in a Smart Way with a New Phase of Life

One of Erikson’s most important contributions was to describe this as a psychosocial phenomenon—an interaction between someone’s sense of who he or she is as a person and society’s recognition of that person as an individual.

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