Public Self and Private Self

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Private and Public Experiences and the Self

   • James T. Tedeschi

   Pages 1-20

3. Self-Identification: Toward an Integration of the Private and Public Self

   • Barry R. Schlenker

   Pages 21-62

4. Four Selves, Two Motives, and a Substitute Process Self-Regulation Model

   • Roy E. Baumeister, Dianne M. Tice

   Pages 63-74

5. Self-Presentation and Self-Evaluation: Processes of Self-Control and Social Control

   • Robert M. Arkin, Ann H. Baumgardner

   Pages 75-97

6. On the Convergence of Public and Private Aspects of Self

   • Abraham Tesser, Janet Moore

   Pages 99-116

7. Self-Presentation and the Phenomenal Self: On the Stability and Malleability of Self-Conceptions

   • Frederick T. Rhodewalt

   Pages 117-142

8. Striving for Specific Identities: The Social Reality of Self-Symbolizing

   • Peter M. Gollwitzer

   Pages 143-159

9. Competence and Excuse-Making as Self-Presentational Strategies

   • George I. Whitehead III, Stephanie H. Smith

   Pages 161-177

10. A Socioanalytic Interpretation of the Public and the Private Selves

    • Robert Hogan, Stephen R. Briggs

    Pages 179-188

11. The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory

    • Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon Solomon

    Pages 189-212

12. Depression: A Self-Presentation Formulation

    • Martha G. Hill, Gifford Weary, Joan Williams

    Pages 213-239

13. Epilogue: The Next Decade of Self-Presentation Research

    • Roy E. Baumeister

    Pages 241-245

14. Back Matter

    Pages 247-260

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Psychology has worked hard to explore the inner self. Modem psychology was born in Wundt's laboratory and Freud's consulting room, where the inner self was pressed to reveal some of its secrets. Freud, in particular, devoted most of his life to explor­ ing the hidden recesses inside the self-hidden even from the conscious mind, he said. From Freud's work right down to the latest journal article on self-schemata or self-esteem, psychologists have continued to tell us about the inner self. More recently, psychology has turned some of its attention to the outer self, that is, the self that is seen and known by other people. Various psychologists have studied how the outer self is formed (impression formation), how people control their outer selves (impression management), and so forth. But how is the outer self related to the inner self? There is an easy answer, but it is wrong. The easy answer is that the outer self is mostly the same as the inner self. Put another way, it is that people reveal their true selves to others in a honest and straightforward fashion, and that others accurately perceive the individual as he or she really is. Sometimes it works out that way, but often it does not. The issue is far too complex for the easy answer.

• Evaluation
• Gender
• Integration
• Presse
• behavior
• cognition
• interaction
• psychology

• Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

  Roy F. Baumeister

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