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Self-Presentation Theory: Self-Construction and Audience Pleasing
- Roy F. Baumeister,
- Debra G. Hutton
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Abstract
Self-presentation is behavior that attempts to convey some information about oneself or some image of oneself to other people. It denotes a class of motivations in human behavior. These motivations are in part stable dispositions of individuals but they depend on situational factors to elicit them. Specifically, self-presentational motivations are activated by the evaluative presence of other people and by others’ (even potential) knowledge of one’s behavior.
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- Title
- Self-Presentation Theory: Self-Construction and Audience Pleasing
- Book Title
- Theories of Group Behavior
- Pages
- pp 71-87
- Copyright
- 1987
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4612-4634-3_4
- Print ISBN
- 978-1-4612-9092-6
- Online ISBN
- 978-1-4612-4634-3
- Series Title
- Springer Series in Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Springer New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag New York
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- Editors
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- Brian Mullen (1)
- George R. Goethals (2)
- Editor Affiliations
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- 1. Department of Psychology, Syracuse University
- 2. Department of Psychology, Williams College
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