Paper Title

A self-presentational view of social phenomena

Authors

Profile picture of Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister

Keywords

  • Self-Presentation
  • Social Behavior
  • Audience
  • Public Self
  • Ideal Self
  • Conformity
  • Reactance
  • Attitude Expression
  • Attitude Change
  • Evaluations
  • Aggression
  • Self-Serving Attribution
  • Counter-Defensive Attribution
  • Task Performance
  • Ingratiation
  • Emotion
  • Social Motives
  • Self-Modification

Journal

Psychological Bulletin External link

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DOI

DOI Icon 10.1037/0033-2909.91.1.3

Publication Info

Volume: 91 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 3-26

Published On

March, 1982

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Abstract

Self-presentation is the use of behavior to communicate some information about oneself to others. The 2 main self-presentational motives are to please the audience and to construct (create, maintain, and modify) one's public self congruent to one's ideal. It is proposed that a wide range of social behavior is determined or influenced by these self-presentational concerns. Research evidence is examined to show the relevance of the self-presentational motives to giving and receiving help, conformity, reactance, attitude expression and change, responses to evaluations, aggressive behavior, self-serving and counter-defensive attributional statements, task performance, ingratiation, and emotion.

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