Correction of McAdams, D. P., Trzesniewski, K., Lilgendahl, J., Benet-Martinez, V., & Robins, R. W. (2021). Self and identity in personality psychology

Self and identity in personality psychology

Personality Science ◽

10.5964/ps.6035 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

Author(s):

Dan P. McAdams ◽

Kali Trzesniewski ◽

Jennifer Lilgendahl ◽

Veronica Benet-Martinez ◽

Richard W. Robins

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Self ◽

Personality Development ◽

Future Research ◽

Social Environments ◽

Personality Psychology ◽

Self Identity ◽

Identity Processes ◽

The Social ◽

Self And Identity

Research on self and identity has greatly enhanced personality science by directing inquiry more deeply into the person’s conscious mind and more expansively outward into the social environments that contextualize individual differences in behavior, thought, and feeling. After delineating key concepts and offering reasons why personality psychologists should care about self and identity processes, we highlight important empirical discoveries that are of special relevance to personality science in the areas of (1) self-insight, (2) self-conscious emotions, (3) self-esteem, (4) narrative identity, and (5) the role of culture in shaping self, identity, and the integration of personality. We anticipate that future research will also move vigorously to (1) develop more comprehensive and precise accounts of how life experiences influence the development of self and identity, (2) explore more fully how the brain builds a sense of self, and (3) harness what we know about self and identity to improve people’s lives and promote personality development.

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Perspectives on Hypo-egoic Phenomena From Social and Personality Psychology

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328079.013.4 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Mark R. Leary ◽

Kate J. Diebels ◽

Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno ◽

Ashley Hawkins

Keyword(s):

Self Regulation ◽

Present Situation ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Social Psychological ◽

Personality Psychology ◽

Psychological Phenomena ◽

Self And Identity ◽

And Behavior ◽

High Degree ◽

People’S Perceptions

Topics related to self and identity have been of considerable interest to social and personality psychologists because people’s self-relevant thoughts play an important role in their cognitions, motives, emotions, and behavior. Most work in the area of self and identity has focused on phenomena that involve a high degree of self-awareness, egocentrism, and egoism. Phenomena characterized by a low level (or even absence) of these egoic characteristics have received comparatively less attention. People who are in a hypo-egoic state focus primarily on the present situation; introspect minimally on their thoughts, motives, and feelings; think about and evaluate themselves primarily in concrete, as opposed to abstract, ways; and pay relatively little attention to other people’s perceptions and evaluations of them. This chapter examines the nature of hypo-egoic mindsets, with a focus on six exemplars of social psychological phenomena that involve hypo-egoic processing: mindfulness, flow, hypo-egoic self-regulation, humility, altruism, and allo-inclusive identity.

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Identifying Imagoes: A Personality Exercise on Myth, Self, and Identity

Teaching of Psychology ◽

10.1207/s15328023top2403_11 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 193-195 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dana S. Dunn

Keyword(s):

Life Events ◽

Daily Life ◽

Self Concept ◽

Major Life Events ◽

Major Life ◽

Personality Psychology ◽

Self And Identity

To make personality psychology personally involving, I developed an exercise based on imagoes, the characters that McAdams (1985, 1993) argued dominate life storks and personal myths. An imago is an idealized and personified self-concept we form in early or midadulthood. Broader than roles played in daily life, imagoes serve a unifying function: to make our stories and myths coherent. While keeping a journal, students identify individual myths and major life events, and then they write about the imagoes most frequently used to make sense out of their lives.

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