Handbook of the Uncertain Self

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ISBN: 9780805861877 | 0805861874
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/28/2009

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This Handbook explores the cognitive, motivational, interpersonal, clinical, and applied aspects of personal uncertainty. It showcases both the diversity and the unity that defines contemporary perspectives on uncertainty in self within social and personality psychology. The contributions to the volume are all written by distinguished scholars in personality, social psychology, and clinical psychology united by their common focus on the causes and consequences of self-uncertainty.

About the Editors	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction: The Uncertain Self	p. 1
Meta-Cognition and Uncertainty in Self	p. 11
Processes by which Confidence (vs. Doubt) Influences the Self	p. 13
Social Influences on Eyewitness Confidence: The Social Psychology of Memory Self-Certainty	p. 36
Be Careful What You Wish For: The Dark Side of Freedom	p. 62
The Causal Uncertainty Model Revisited	p. 78
Uncertainty Orientation: Myths, Truths, and the Interface of Motivation and Cognition	p. 101
The Social Psychology of Fairness and the Regulation of Personal Uncertainty	p. 122
Procedural Fairness Responses in the Context of Self-Uncertainty	p. 142
On First versus False Instincts	p. 160
Meta-Cognitive Regulation as a Reaction to the Uncertainty of Stereotype Threat	p. 176
Motivation and Uncertainty in Self	p. 193
Coping with Life's One Certainty: A Terror Management Perspective on tire Existentially Uncertain Self	p. 195
The Role of Uncertainty in Self-Evaluative Processes: Another Look at the Cognitive-Affective Crossfire	p. 216
Defensive Conviction as Emotion Regulation: Goal Mechanisms and Interpersonal Implications	p. 232
The New Adventures of Regulatory Focus: Self-Uncertainty and the Quest for a Diagnostic Self-Evaluation	p. 249
Preparedness	p. 266
The Uncertainty Surrounding Ostracism: Threat Amplifier or Protector?	p. 291
Perceived Evaluative Styles and Self-Doubt	p. 303
Clinical and Applied Implications of the Uncertain Self	p. 319
Deconstructing the Link between Self-Doubt and Self-Worth: Ideas to Reduce Maladaptive Coping	p. 321
Defense Mechanisms and Self-Doubt	p. 338
Fragile versus Secure High Self-Esteem: Implications for Defensiveness and Insecurity	p. 360
The Phenotypic Expressions of Self-Doubt about Ability in Academic Contexts: Strategies of Self-Handicapping and Subjective Overachievement	p. 379
General Commentaries	p. 399
Human Groups, Social Categories, and Collective Self: Social Identity and the Management of Self-Uncertainty	p. 401
Self-Uncertainty and its Cousins	p. 421
Commentary: The End of the Beginning	p. 444
Author Index	p. 449
Subject Index	p. 465
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