Self-presentation

Impression Management And Interpersonal Behavior
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8133-3004-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

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 to make a particular impression on someone else mras when a job applicant responds inthat will satisfactorily impress the interviewer. But more often, people 5 concerns with others’ impressions simply constrain their behavioural options. Most of the time inclined to do things that will lead others to see us as incompetent, inwnoral, maladjusted, or otherwise socially undesirable. As a result, our concerns with others’ impressions limit what we are willing to do.Self-presentation almotives underlie and pervade near corner of interpersonal life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leary, Mark R

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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