Building, Defending, and Regulating the Self

A Psychological Perspective

Abraham Tesser, Joanne V. Wood, Diederik A. Stapel

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2005
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135423865
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This volume pulls together research on several aspects of the self. One set of chapters deals with the importance of building a self based on authenticity and "Who I really am."; a second group deals with the ways in which we defend views of the self as positive and powerful; a third group is concerned with multiple aspects of self regulation. Each of the chapters is a well-written, non-technical description of an important, currently active research program.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• ABOUT THE EDITORS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INTRODUCTION: AN OVERVIEW OF BUILDING, DEFENDING, AND REGULATING THE SELF
• 1. THE MICHELANGELO PHENOMENON IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS
• 2. FROM THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE TO BEHAVIOR AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: A MULTICOMPONENT CONCEPTUALIZATION OF AUTHENTICITY
• 3. TRANSPORTATION INTO NARRATIVE WORLDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SELF
• 4. CONFLICT AND HABIT: A SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE APPROACH TO THE SELF
• 5. IDEAL AGENCY: THE PERCEPTION OF SELF AS AN ORIGIN OF ACTION
• 6. REFLECTIONS IN TROUBLED WATERS: NARCISSISM AND THE VICISSITUDES OF AN INTERPERSONALLY CONTEXTUALIZED SELF
• 7. NAGGING DOUBTS AND A GLIMMER OF HOPE: THE ROLE OF IMPLICIT SELF-ESTEEM IN SELF-IMAGE MAINTENANCE
• 8. APPROACH–AVOIDANCE MOTIVATION AND SELF-CONCEPT EVALUATION
• 9. SELF-CONSCIOUS EMOTION AND SELF-REGULATION
• 10. ON THE HIDDEN BENEFITS OF STATE ORIENTATION: CAN PEOPLE PROSPER WITHOUT EFFICIENT AFFECT-REGULATION SKILLS?
• 11. THE ROLES OF THE SELF IN PRIMING-TO-BEHAVIOR EFFECTS