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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Case for Uniqueness
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Front Matter
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Need for Uniqueness: Theory and Research
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Front Matter
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Uniqueness Seeking in Perspective
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Back Matter
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About this book
My Red Shirt and Me The red shirt incident begins with a rather ordinary red shirt. Not a brightly colored red shirt, not a dramatic cherry or firehouse red, more like a faded burgundy. But, for several days, my very iden tity was bound up in its redness. It was me, and I wore it with the pride a matador takes in his splendid cape, a hero in his medals of bravery, or a nun in her religious habit. I'll never forget the bound less joy I felt wearing that simple, pullover, short-sleeved red shirt in the hospital--or the rush of relief that I experienced when, at last, I decided to surrender it. However, we are getting ahead of our story, which starts a short time earlier with a most unfortunate accident. A light flurry of wet snow had begun to fall as the university limousine turned the corner on its way from the Bronx campus of New York University to the downtown campus. Although eight of us were packed into the car and had resigned ourselves to the usual boring faculty meeting awaiting us, somehow a spontaneous air of joviality was created.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Uniqueness
Book Subtitle: The Human Pursuit of Difference
Authors: C. R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin
Series Title: Perspectives in Social Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3659-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1980
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-3661-7Published: 08 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-3659-4Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 252