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Nov 3, 2020 · American social psychologist Roy Baumeister covers the myth of high self-esteem as a panacea for most social problems, the illusion of authentic self, self-actualization and self-esteem as a primary human motivation with Witkowski. They then discuss the problems...
- Tomasz Witkowski
- witkowski@moderator.edu.pl
- 2020
Oct 15, 2011 · Self and Identity: A Brief Overview of What They Are, What They Do, and How They Work R.F. Baumeister (2011). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , 1234, 48-55. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06224.x
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The need to belong is a powerful motivational basis for interpersonal behavior, and it is thwarted by social exclusion and rejection. Laboratory work has uncovered a destructive set of consequences of being socially excluded, such as increased aggressiveness and reduced helpfulness toward new targets. Rejected persons do, however, exhibit a cautious interest in finding new friends. Theory and ...
- Roy F. Baumeister, Lauren E. Brewer, Dianne M. Tice, Jean M. Twenge
- 2007
Baumeister’s brilliant book shows us how the self only makes sense as a product of the culture it lives in, how it changes over epochs, how difficult it is to 'know thyself,' and, most important, the indispensable reality of the self.”
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Self-Esteem and Narcissism
- Self-Control
- Metatraits
Baumeister received his Ph.D. in social psychology during the late 1970s, a time when the two personality and social psychology had been drawing apart and indeed sometimes competing, with hostility, for resources such as faculty positions and student funding. Baumeister’s professors were generally dismissive and skeptical of personality, consistent...
Self-esteem was Baumeister’s first research interest (i.e., his undergraduate senior thesis) and has remained a prominent focus, though his views about it have changed quite radically over the years. In the 1970s, interest in self-esteem was just beginning, and he had a chance to ride the wave, which became a minor tsunami in the 1980s. He used lab...
When Baumeister reluctantly concluded that self-esteem was not the vital key to understanding human selfhood, he began to study self-regulation and self-control. This has spawned a lively research program. One important part of it involved studying individual differences in self-control. Existing measures were problematic, and so he worked with Jun...
At one point early in his career, Baumeister became excited by the concept of “metatraits,” defined as the trait of having a trait. This idea is now out of fashion (possibly for invalid reasons, so that it might resurface in the future, as the truth will presumably always emerge in the long run), but it was plausible at the time. The idea of metatr...
- baumeister@psy.fsu.edu
Jan 1, 2021 · Roy F. Baumeister is one of the most widely published and highly cited social psychologists in the world. He is known for his work on many aspects of the self and human nature. As of 2018, he is currently a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia.
Baumeister's research spans multiple topics, including self and identity, self-regulation, interpersonal rejection and the need to belong, sexuality and gender, aggression,...
