Although social psychology has been traditionally focused on interpersonal relationships,
the cognitive revolution in psychology has had the effect of refocusing some social …

Some students put off studying until the last minute, fool around the night before a test, and
otherwise reduce effort so that if their subsequent performance is low, these circumstances …

Since the publication of our first text on social cognition, a lot has changed for us personally
(children come and gone, grandchildren have arrived, new jobs, new houses) and …

We propose a dynamic self-regulatory processing model of narcissism and review
supporting evidence. The model casts narcissism in terms of motivated self-construction, in …

The self has long fascinated writers, poets, and philosophers. More recently, scientists have
begun to investigate it empirically, using rigorous and inventive methodologies. The focus …

The present chapter intends to delineate and assess the future potentials of the main fields
of the anthropology of art. I will not engage here in the definitional issues surrounding the …

Two studies examined motivational influences on and correlates of defensive pessimism
and self‐handicapping and investigated the relationship between these two cognitive …

Proactivelyseeking help from others involves “social costs” because the help seeker
appears incompetent, dependent, and inferior to others. This article hypothesizes that these …

Prevailing wisdom paints the impostor phenomenon as detrimental. I seek to rebalance the
existing conversation around this phenomenon by highlighting that it may also have …

In this chapter, RM Arkin and KC Oleson review how the evidence suggests that we should
formulate the self-handicapping process and sketch further theoretical developments in the …