The nature and structure of the self: an overview / R. Baumeister -- Self-knowledge -- Symbolic interactionist view of self-concept: through the looking glass darkly / J. Shrauger and T. Schoeneman -- Illusion and well-being: a social psychological perspective on mental health / S. Taylor and J. Brown -- Self-conceptions -- The self / W. James -- The real self: from institution to impulse / R. Turner -- Motivational roots -- Self-esteem as an interpersonal monitor: the sociometer hypothesis / M. Leary [and others] -- Why do people need self-esteem?: converging evidence that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function / J. Greenberg [and others] -- Self and information processing -- Self-schemata and processing information and the self / H. Markus -- Self-reference and the encoding of personal information / T. Rogers, N. Kuiper, and W. Kirker -- Self-discrepancy: a theory relating self and affect / E. Higgins
Self-presentation -- Self-presentation can be hazardous to your health: impression management and health risk / M. Leary, L. Tchividjian, B. Kraxberger -- Self-concept change and self-presentation: the looking glass self is also a magnifying glass / D. Tice -- Self esteem -- Self-esteem and clarity of the self-concept / J. Campbell -- Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: the dark side of high self-esteem / R.F. Baumeister, L. Smart, and J. Boden -- Self-regulation -- Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavior change / A. Bandura -- Control theory: a useful conceptual framework for personality-social, clinical and health psychology / C. Carver and M. Scheier -- Ego depletion: is the active self a limited resource? / R.F. Baumeister [and others] -- Self and culture -- Culture and the self: implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation / H. Markus and S. Kitayama
Motivation and self-knowledge -- The psychology of self-affirmation: sustaining the integrity of the self / C. Steele -- The cognitive-affective crossfire: when self-consistency confronts self-enhancement / W. Swann [and others] -- Assessment, enhancement, and verification determinants of the self-evaluation process / C. Sedikides -- Strategies -- Control of the attributions about the self through self-handicapping strategies: the appeal of alcohol and the role of underachievement / E. Jones and S. Berglas -- Basking in reflected glory: three (football) field studies / R. Cialdini [and others] -- Toward a self-evaluation maintenance model of social behavior / A. Tesser -- Appendix: How to read a journal article in social psychology / C. Jordan and M. Zanna