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Psychology of self

Index Psychology of self

The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive, conative or affective representation of one's identity or the subject of experience. [1]

56 relations: 'I' and the 'me', Affect (psychology), Amnesia, Andrzej Nowak (psychologist), Appraisal theory, Circular reasoning, Cognition, Conation, Consciousness, Cultural capital, Dialogical self, Episodic memory, Grandiosity, Harry Guntrip, Hoʻoponopono, Identity (social science), Illusion, Image of God, Imago, Inner critic, Introspection, John Locke, Jungian archetypes, Looking-glass self, Michel Foucault, Narcissism, Narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury, Nikolas Rose, Other (philosophy), Personality psychology, Philosophy of self, Positive illusions, Psychotherapy, Reflexive self-consciousness, Reification (fallacy), Richard E. Nisbett, Self, Self psychology, Self-awareness, Self-concept, Self-deception, Self-discovery, Self-enhancement, Self-esteem, Self-help, Self-knowledge (psychology), Self-perception theory, Self-schema, Self-serving bias, Semantic memory, ..., Social psychology, Social structure, Symbolic interactionism, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Timothy Wilson, Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman. Expand index (6 more) »

'I' and the 'me'

The I' and the 'me are terms central to the social philosophy of George Herbert Mead, one of the key influences on the development of the branch of sociology called symbolic interactionism.

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Affect (psychology)

Affect is a concept used in psychology to describe the experience of feeling or emotion.

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Amnesia

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma.

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Andrzej Nowak (psychologist)

Andrzej Nowak (born June 12, 1953 in Warsaw) – Polish psychologist, one of the founders of dynamical social psychology.

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Appraisal theory

Appraisal theory is the theory in psychology that emotions are extracted from our evaluations (appraisals or estimates) of events that cause specific reactions in different people.

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Circular reasoning

Circular reasoning (circulus in probando, "circle in proving"; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.

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Cognition

Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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Conation

Conation (from the Latin conatus) is any natural tendency, impulse, striving, or directed effort.

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Consciousness

Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

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Cultural capital

In sociology, cultural capital consists of the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech and dress, etc.) that promote social mobility in a stratified society.

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Dialogical self

The dialogical self is a psychological concept which describes the mind's ability to imagine the different positions of participants in an internal dialogue, in close connection with external dialogue.

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Episodic memory

Episodic memory is the memory of autobiographical events (times, places, associated emotions, and other contextual who, what, when, where, why knowledge) that can be explicitly stated or conjured.

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Grandiosity

Grandiosity refers to an unrealistic sense of superiority, a sustained view of oneself as better than others that causes the narcissist to view others with disdain or as inferior, as well as to a sense of uniqueness: the belief that few others have anything in common with oneself and that one can only be understood by a few or very special people.

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Harry Guntrip

Harry Guntrip (1901–1975) was a psychologist known for his major contributions to object relations theory or school of Freudian thought.

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Hoʻoponopono

Hooponopono (ho-o-pono-pono) is a Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness.

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Identity (social science)

In psychology, identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self-identity) or group (particular social category or social group).

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Illusion

An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the human brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation.

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Image of God

The Image of God is a concept and theological doctrine in Judaism, Christianity, and Sufism of Islam, which asserts that human beings are created in the image and likeness of God.

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Imago

In biology, the imago is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development; it also is called the imaginal stage, the stage in which the insect attains maturity.

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Inner critic

The inner critic or "critical inner voice" is a concept used in popular psychology and psychotherapy to refer to a subpersonality that judges and demeans a person.

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Introspection

Introspection is the examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings.

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

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Jungian archetypes

In Jungian psychology, archetypes are highly developed elements of the collective unconscious.

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Looking-glass self

The looking-glass self is a social psychological concept introduced by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902 (McIntyre 2006).

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic.

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Narcissism

Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes.

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Narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury

Narcissistic rage is a reaction to narcissistic injury, which is a perceived threat to a narcissist's self-esteem or self-worth.

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Nikolas Rose

Nikolas Rose (born 1947) is a prominent British sociologist and social theorist.

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Other (philosophy)

In phenomenology, the terms the Other and the Constitutive Other identify the other human being, in their differences from the Self, as being a cumulative, constituting factor in the self-image of a person; as their acknowledgement of being real; hence, the Other is dissimilar to and the opposite of the Self, of Us, and of the Same.

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Personality psychology

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals.

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Philosophy of self

The philosophy of self defines, among other things, the conditions of identity that make one subject of experience distinct from all others.

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Positive illusions

Positive illusions are unrealistically favorable attitudes that people have towards themselves or to people that are close to them.

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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways.

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Reflexive self-consciousness

Reflexive self-consciousness is a concept, related to that of enlightenment, formulated by Eugene Halliday during the 1940s-1950s in England.

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Reification (fallacy)

Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity.

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Richard E. Nisbett

Richard Eugene Nisbett (born 1941) is an American social psychologist and writer.

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Self

The self is an individual person as the object of his or her own reflective consciousness.

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Self psychology

Self psychology, a modern psychoanalytic theory and its clinical applications, was conceived by Heinz Kohut in Chicago in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and is still developing as a contemporary form of psychoanalytic treatment.

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Self-awareness

Self-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.

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Self-concept

One's self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self-structure) is a collection of beliefs about oneself.

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Self-deception

Self-deception is a process of denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, or importance of opposing evidence and logical argument.

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Self-discovery

The term "journey of self-discovery" refers to a travel, pilgrimage, or series of events whereby a person attempts to determine how they feel, personally, about spiritual issues or priorities, rather than following the opinions of family, friends, neighborhood or peer pressure.

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Self-enhancement

Self-enhancement is a type of motivation that works to make people feel good about themselves and to maintain self-esteem.

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Self-esteem

Self-esteem reflects an individual's overall subjective emotional evaluation of his or her own worth.

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Self-help

Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvementAPA Dictionary of Physicology, 1st ed., Gary R. VandenBos, ed., Washington: American Psychological Association, 2007.

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Self-knowledge (psychology)

Self-knowledge is a term used in psychology to describe the information that an individual draws upon when finding an answer to the question "What am I like?".

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Self-perception theory

Self-perception theory (SPT) is an account of attitude formation developed by psychologist Daryl Bem.

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Self-schema

The self-schema refers to a long lasting and stable set of memories that summarize a person's beliefs, experiences and generalizations about the self, in specific behavioral domains.

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Self-serving bias

A self-serving bias is any cognitive or perceptual process that is distorted by the need to maintain and enhance self-esteem, or the tendency to perceive oneself in an overly favorable manner.

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Semantic memory

Semantic memory is one of the two types of declarative or explicit memory (our memory of facts or events that is explicitly stored and retrieved).

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Social psychology

Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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Social structure

In the social sciences, social structure is the patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of the individuals.

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Symbolic interactionism

Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to people's particular utilization of dialect to make images, normal implications, for deduction and correspondence with others.

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The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis is an academic journal in the field of psychoanalysis.

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Timothy Wilson

Timothy D. Wilson is an American social psychologist and writer.

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Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman

In Carl Jung's theory of analytical psychology, the Wise Old Woman and the Wise Old Man are archetypes of the Collective Unconscious.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_self

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