A Three-Tier Hierarchy of Self-Potency: Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue , 2013, Pages 235-295

  Sedikides, Constantine ^a   Gaertner, Lowell ^b   Luke, Michelle A ^c   O'Mara, Erin M ^d   Gebauer, Jochen E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective self; Identity; Individual self; Motivation; Relational self; Self; Self protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878195754     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407188-9.00005-3     Document Type: Chapter

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