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Self-Presentation Theory: Self-Construction and Audience Pleasing

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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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  • Antisocial Behavior
  • Individual Therapy
  • Cognitive Dissonance
  • Impression Management
  • Experimental Social Psychology

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  1. Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, 13210, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Brian Mullen

  2. Department of Psychology, Williams College, 01267, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

    George R. Goethals

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Baumeister, R.F., Hutton, D.G. (1987). Self-Presentation Theory: Self-Construction and Audience Pleasing. In: Mullen, B., Goethals, G.R. (eds) Theories of Group Behavior. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4634-3_4

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