369 Pages
by
Psychology Press
369 Pages
by
Psychology Press
369 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Although social psychology has been traditionally focused on interpersonal relationships, the cognitive revolution in psychology has had the effect of refocusing some social psychology on intra-psychic processes. This area of psychology has become very popular in recent years, yet there is currently no other textbook available for the study of the self. Republished in its original form by... Read more
1. Introduction. 2. The Nature of the Self. 3. The Search for Self-Knowledge. 4. Self-Development. 5. The Self from a Cognitive Perspective. 6. Self-Regulation of Behavior. 7. Self-Presentation. 8. Self-Esteem. 9. Depression. 10. Illusion and Well-Being. Author Index. Subject Index.
Biography
JONATHON D. BROWN is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1986. He has written and published numerous articles and chapters on the self, and is the recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. He is currently interested in understanding how self-esteem influences people’s responses to success and failure. In his spare time, he aggravates himself playing tennis.
