Self continuity : individual and collective perspectives / edited by Fabio Sani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sani, Fabio, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self.

Identity (Psychology).

Continuity.

Physical Description:

xv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Psychology Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction and overview / Fabio Sani

Cultural and societal dimensions of self continuity

Self in time : emergence within a community of minds / Katherine Nelson

Toward a cultural phenomenology of personal identity / Romin W. Tafarodi

Self continuity, autobiographical memory, and identity

Autobiographical memory in childhood and the development of a continuous self / Amy Bird and Elaine Reese

Remembering being me : the self continuity function of autobiographical memory in younger and older adults / Susan Bluck and Nicole Alea

The contributions of autobiographical memory to the content and continuity of identity : a social-cognitive neuroscience approach / Donna Rose Addis and Lynette J. Tippett

Self continuity motives and maintenance strategies

The never-ending story : a terror management perspective on the psychological function of self continuity / Mark J. Landau, Jeff Greenberg, and Sheldon Solomon

Spanning time : an amoebic self-perspective/ Christopher T. Burris and John K. Rempel

The continuity of groups and collective selves

Perceiving continuity and change in groups / David L. Hamilton, John M. Levine, and Joel A. Thurston

The intergenerational self : subjective perspectives and family history / Robyn Fivush, Jennifer G. Bohanek, and Marshall Duke

Making a past fit for the future : the political and ontological dimensions of historical continuity / Steve Reicher

Perceived collective continuity : seeing groups as temporally enduring entities / Fabio Sani, Mhairi Bowe, and Marina Herrera

Collective self continuity in a time of change

Leaders as agents of continuity: self continuity and resistance to collective change / Daan van Knippenberg, Barbara van Knippenberg, and Andrea Bobbio

Torn between identities : predictors of adjustment to identity change

Aarti Iyer, Jolanda Jetten, and Dimitrios Tsivrikos

The interplay between individual and collective self-continuity

Conceptions of the human self and human rights : implications for the psychological continuity of less inclusive selves / Mark A. Nolan and Nyla R. Branscombe

Personal persistence and persistent peoples : continuities in the lives of individual and whole cultural communities / Michael J. Chandler and Travis Proulx

Nostalgia as enabler of self continuity / Constantine Sedikides, ... [et al.]

Commentaries

"Know thyself!"

but what, how and why? / Philippe Rochat

Commenting on continuity : a view from social psychology / Russell Spears.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780805857016

080585701X

OCLC:

213599921