Uniqueness
The Human Pursuit of Difference
Authors: Snyder, C.R., Fromkin, Howard L.
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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.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Literary Precedents for Uniqueness
Pages 3-10
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Do Birds of a Feather Always Flock Together?
Pages 13-29
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Theory of Uniqueness
Pages 31-55
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Corollaries of Uniqueness Theory: The Nature of the Comparison Other Persons
Pages 57-76
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Individual Differences in Need for Uniqueness
Pages 77-101
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Uniqueness
- Book Subtitle
- The Human Pursuit of Difference
- Authors
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- C.R. Snyder
- Howard L. Fromkin
- Series Title
- Perspectives in Social Psychology
- Copyright
- 1980
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Plenum Press, New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4684-3659-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4684-3659-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4684-3661-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- 252
- Topics