Book section · January 1, 2025
This chapter extends the self-presentational theory of social anxiety which explains people’s nervousness in social encounters as due to their concerns about other people’s perceptions of them. Our view is that self-presentational concerns result in social ...
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Book section · January 1, 2024
When people perceive that they are rejected by others, they may respond in positive ways to regain acceptance or in negative ways to achieve other goals, such as revenge. This chapter examines people’s negative responses to interpersonal rejection. After d ...
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Book section · January 1, 2022
A great deal of human behavior is motivated by the desire for acceptance and belonging, and a high proportion of people's emotional reactions stems from concerns with actual or potential social rejection. The pervasive quest for acceptance can be seen in t ...
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Book section · January 1, 2017
When people interact, their behaviors are greatly influenced by the impressions they have of one another’s personalities, abilities, attitudes, intentions, identities, roles, and other characteristics. In fact, many important outcomes in life - outcomes as ...
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Book section · January 1, 2017
A hypothesized need to form and maintain strong, stable interpersonal relationships is evaluated in light of the empirical literature. The need is for frequent, nonaversive interactions within an ongoing relational bond. Consistent with the helongingness h ...
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Book section · January 1, 2015
People differ in the degree to which they are attuned to other people's evaluations of them, are motivated to make desired impressions on others, experience distress when their public images are damaged or others' evaluations of them are unfavorable, and u ...
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Book section · April 1, 2014
This chapter focuses on the ways in which people seek status in their interpersonal interactions and relationships. Our analysis conceptualizes status as the degree to which other people perceive that an individual possesses resources or personal character ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
This chapter describes a refinement and extension of the self-presentational theory of social anxiety, which explains social anxiety in terms of people’s concerns with the impressions that other people are forming of them. Theoretical developments involvin ...
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Book section · September 18, 2012
In this chapter, we first consider the historical and conceptual roots of the tripartite, but at times rocky, marriage of the fields of personality, social, and abnormal psychology. After briefly describing the hopes of early 20th-century scholars to array ...
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Book section · May 1, 2011
Many phenomena of interest to positive psychology share a common feature that involves a particular pattern of self-relevant cognitive activity. This hypo-egoic state is responsible both for the sense of well-being that tends to accompany many positive psy ...
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Book section · January 1, 2009
A prevailing question in the study of emotion has involved the number and identity of human emotions. Theorists have sliced the emotional pie in a variety of ways, but most fall into one of two camps. Advocates of categorical approaches have identified a r ...
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Book section · January 1, 2009
Blushing is the uncontrollable experience of warmth, usually accompanied by reddening of the skin, on the face, neck, ears and upper chest that people sometimes experience in reaction to real or perceived evaluation or social attention. Physiologically, bl ...
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Book section · December 13, 2007
As the capacity for self-reflection evolved among the prehistoric people from whom modern human beings descended, they presumably became aware that other individuals did not always see them the way that they saw themselves. This realization was a benchmark ...
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