In this fifth chapter, I outline the many and different implications of the relational assumptions on which selvations theory is based. Viewing humans as having a relational social-motivational essence implies, for instance, that psychological selfishness can be understood as a particularly individualistic way of relating to others and that altruism can have as many guises as there are ways to regulate relationships. Moreover, it implies that a view of humans as rational actors (which is common in the broader social sciences) should be replaced with a view of humans as relational actors. More generally, after pre-emptively correcting four potential misunderstandings about selvations theory, I revisit the theories summarized in Chapter 2 to show how selvations theory moves beyond them; I reinterpret a number of paradoxes and debates in the mainstream literature from the vantage point of selvations theory; and I discuss a number of isolated and fragmented findings that selvations theory brings together. All of this reflects the idea that different assumptions indeed have different implications for how we understand social motivation in psychology and beyond.