1st Edition

Self-presentation Impression Management And Interpersonal Behavior

By Mark R Leary Copyright 1996
262 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This book is about the ways which human behavior is affected concerns with people may be doing, their public impressions they typically prefer that No matter what else other people perceive them in certain desired ways and not perceive them in other, undesired ways. Put simply, human beings have a pervasive and ongoing concern with their self-presentations. Sometimes they act in ceflain ways just... Read more
Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tactics -- 3 The Self-Presentational Motive -- 4 The Social Context: Norms and Roles -- 5 The Target's Values -- 6 Current Social Image -- 7 Instrumental Complimentarity -- 8 The Private Self -- 9 Worrying About Impressions -- Reference -- Index.

Biography

Mark R. Leary is professor of psychology at Wake Forest University.