Self-presentation

This book provides a background for understanding self-presentation, with an emphasis on the tactics people use to manage their impressions. It looks at what happens, both behaviorally and emotionally, when people think they are making undesired impressions on other people.

This book is about the ways which human behavior is affected concerns with people may be doing, their public impressions they typically prefer that No matter what else other people perceive them in certain desired ways and not perceive them in other, undesired ways. Put simply, human beings have a pervasive and ongoing concern with their self-presentations. Sometimes they act in ceflain ways just to make a particular impression on someone else mras when a job applicant responds inthat will satisfactorily impress the interviewer. But more often, people 5 concerns with others' impressions simply constrain their behavioural options. Most of the time inclined to do things that will lead others to see us as incompetent, inwnoral, maladjusted, or otherwise socially undesirable. As a result, our concerns with others' impressions limit what we are willing to do.Self-presentation almotives underlie and pervade near corner of interpersonal life.

Autorentext
Mark R. Leary is professor of psychology at Wake Forest University.

Inhalt
Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tactics -- 3 The Self-Presentational Motive -- 4 The Social Context: Norms and Roles -- 5 The Target's Values -- 6 Current Social Image -- 7 Instrumental Complimentarity -- 8 The Private Self -- 9 Worrying About Impressions -- Reference -- Index.