Self and Identity: Fundamental Issues (Rutgers Series on by Richard D. Ashmore, Lee Jussim

By Richard D. Ashmore, Lee Jussim

Self and identification were very important but risky notions in psychology due to the fact its adolescence as a systematic self-discipline. lately, psychologists and different social scientists have all started to enhance and refine the conceptual and empirical instruments for learning the complicated nature of self. This quantity offers a serious research of primary concerns within the clinical examine of self and identification. those chapters cross a lot farther than in simple terms taking inventory of contemporary clinical development. World-class social scientists from psychology, sociology and anthropology current new and contrasting views on those primary matters. issues contain the non-public as opposed to social nature of self and identification, multiplicity of selves as opposed to solidarity of id, and the societal, cultural, and historic formation and expression of selves. those inventive contributions supply new insights into the foremost concerns fascinated about knowing self and identification. because the first quantity within the Rutgers sequence on Self and Social id, the ebook units the level for a effective moment century of medical research and heightened figuring out of self and id. students and complex scholars within the social sciences will locate this hugely informative and provocative analyzing. Dr. Richard D. Ashmore is a professor and Dr. Lee Jussim is an affiliate professor within the division of Psychology at Rutgers college, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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Applications The first study is of two groups of young mothers, one group with a history of physical abuse as children, the other not. 1. 1. the value of including the memories that these mothers have about their own mothers and the value of including ego and alter targets in the same analysis. The second application, a prospective study of autobiographical memory in clinical depression, also illustrates the value of the socius framework in sorting out the memory distortions in ego and alter that occur in this group as compared with a group of nondepressed controls.

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