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  • Building, Defending, and Regulating the Self

    A Psychological Perspective

    This volume pulls together research on several aspects of the self. One set of chapters deals with the importance of building a self based on authenticity and "Who I really am."; a second group deals with the ways in which we defend views of the self as positive and powerful; a third group is concerned with multiple aspects of self regulation. Each of the chapters is a well-written, non-technical ... Read more

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  • Striving and Feeling

    Interactions Among Goals, Affect, and Self-regulation

    Recently, research on the ways in which goals, affect, and self-regulation influence one another has enjoyed an upsurge. New findings are being published and new theories are being developed to integrate these findings. This volume reports on the latest of this work, including a substantial amount of data and theory that has not yet been published. Emanating from a conference exploring affect as ... Read more

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  • The Self and Social Relationships

    Although the two major research areas of the "Self" and "Social Relationships" have flourished, they have done so largely independently of each other. More and more research, however, has indicated that relationships shape the nature of the self and identity, and that self-views influence interpersonal processes and the manner in which people navigate their close relationships. The integration of ... Read more

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  • The Construction of Social Judgments

    Series series Cog Studies Grp of the Inst for Behavioral Research at UGA
    Researchers have been addressing social judgment from a cognitive perspective for more than 15 years. Within recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear that many of the models and assumptions initially adopted are in need of revision. The chapters in this volume point out where the original models and assumptions have fallen short, and suggest directions for future research and ... Read more

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  • Theory of Mind

    Beyond the Preschool Years

    This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with other approaches to the study of social understanding. By highlighting the relationship between early and later developments, the book provides readers with a greater understanding of what we know and what we still ... Read more

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  • Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies

    Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis

    Series series New Imago
    Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "new experiences" model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts. Such ... Read more

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  • Reading in a Second Language

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  • Self-Regulated Learning and Academic Achievement

    Theoretical Perspectives

    This volume brings together internationally known researchers representing different theoretical perspectives on students' self-regulation of learning. Diverse theories on how students become self-regulated learners are compared in terms of their conceptual origins, scientific form, research productivity, and pedagogical effectiveness. This is the only comprehensive comparison of diverse classical ... Read more

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  • Self-Concept

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  • The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

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    Series Book 32 - Wiley Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology
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