Eighty Phenomena About the Self: Representation, Evaluation, Regulation, and Change
We propose a new approach for examining self-related aspects and phenomena. The approach includes (1) a taxonomy and (2) an emphasis on multiple levels of mechanisms. The taxonomy categorizes approximately eighty self-related phenomena according to three primary functions involving the self: repres...
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| description | We propose a new approach for examining self-related aspects and phenomena. The approach includes (1) a taxonomy and (2) an emphasis on multiple levels of mechanisms. The taxonomy categorizes approximately eighty self-related phenomena according to three primary functions involving the self: representing, effecting, and changing. The representing self encompasses the ways in which people depict themselves, either to themselves or to others (e.g., self-concepts, self-presentation). The effecting self concerns ways in which people facilitate or limit their own traits and behaviors (e.g., self-enhancement, self-regulation). The changing self is less time-limited than the regulating self; it concerns phenomena that involve lasting alterations in how people represent and control themselves (e.g., self-expansion, self-development). Each self-related phenomenon within these three categories may be examined at four levels of interacting mechanisms (social, individual, neural, and molecular). We illustrate our approach by focusing on seven self-related phenomena. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59358096cc7c424fb2f34250506823e42022-12-21T21:47:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-03-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00334131941Eighty Phenomena About the Self: Representation, Evaluation, Regulation, and ChangePaul eThagard0Joanne V. Wood1University of WaterlooUniversity of WaterlooWe propose a new approach for examining self-related aspects and phenomena. The approach includes (1) a taxonomy and (2) an emphasis on multiple levels of mechanisms. The taxonomy categorizes approximately eighty self-related phenomena according to three primary functions involving the self: representing, effecting, and changing. The representing self encompasses the ways in which people depict themselves, either to themselves or to others (e.g., self-concepts, self-presentation). The effecting self concerns ways in which people facilitate or limit their own traits and behaviors (e.g., self-enhancement, self-regulation). The changing self is less time-limited than the regulating self; it concerns phenomena that involve lasting alterations in how people represent and control themselves (e.g., self-expansion, self-development). Each self-related phenomenon within these three categories may be examined at four levels of interacting mechanisms (social, individual, neural, and molecular). We illustrate our approach by focusing on seven self-related phenomena.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00334/fullselfSelf-regulationmechanismsSelf-representationSelf-change |
| spellingShingle | Paul eThagard Joanne V. Wood Eighty Phenomena About the Self: Representation, Evaluation, Regulation, and Change Frontiers in Psychology self Self-regulation mechanisms Self-representation Self-change |
| title | Eighty Phenomena About the Self: Representation, Evaluation, Regulation, and Change |
| title_full | Eighty Phenomena About the Self: Representation, Evaluation, Regulation, and Change |
| title_fullStr | Eighty Phenomena About the Self: Representation, Evaluation, Regulation, and Change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eighty Phenomena About the Self: Representation, Evaluation, Regulation, and Change |
| title_short | Eighty Phenomena About the Self: Representation, Evaluation, Regulation, and Change |
| title_sort | eighty phenomena about the self representation evaluation regulation and change |
| topic | self Self-regulation mechanisms Self-representation Self-change |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00334/full |
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