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Living a Lie | Psychology Today. Fooling yourself can have devastating consequences, especially in the domains of money, career, sexual identity and relationships. Meet four people who fought...
Apr 4, 2017 · Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others. New research provides the first evidence for a theory first put forward in the 1970s. By Matthew Hutson.
Jan 5, 2020 · We tell lies all the time. A 2002 study performed by psychologist Robert Feldman at the University of Massachusetts found that 60 percent of people lied at least once during a 10-minute ...
- The True Self and Mental Health
- Social Context and The False Self
- False Self and Mental Health
- The Conflict Between True Self and False Self
This growth in choice and opportunity has been praised by many psychologists. For example, Carl Rogers argues that this expansion of choice allows humans the scope to develop a "true" (or "authentic") self, unfettered by the manacles of tradition and convention. The true self is achieved through the conscious creation of a lifestyle commensurate wi...
However, it is important to recognize that lifestyle choices do not occur in a social vacuum. The choices of individuals are still heavily influenced by peers, parents, or others in the community such as religious leaders. Choices are also shaped by cultural expectations and social norms, which may vary according to age, gender, and other socio-dem...
Indeed, some research shows that this false self is often encouraged by peers and family, who can make aspects of their love, friendship, or support contingent on certain choices being made. This can lead many people to sacrifice their own authentic desires in the service of people-pleasing. In their writings, psychiatrists such as D.W. Winnicott a...
To be sure, this era of untrammeled choice offers boundless opportunities to engage in a myriad of activities and build a "pastiche personality" which expresses a true (or authentic) self. Indeed, this is one of the joys of living in a free and open society. However, this vision of free individuals making free choices in a free society is somewhat ...
The main reason people lie is low self-esteem. They want to impress, please, and tell someone what they think they want to hear. For example, insecure teenagers often lie to gain social acceptance. Here, parents should emphasize to their children the consequences of lying.
Apr 18, 2017 · In 1976, in the foreword to Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene, the biologist Robert Trivers floated a novel explanation for such self-serving biases: We dupe ourselves in order to deceive others, creating social advantage. Now after four decades Trivers and his colleagues have published the first research supporting his idea.
Oct 2012. The strange politics of disgust. David Pizarro. When we choose not to deal with our anger, our fear, and our sadness, we merely postpone the problem for another day, until we can't contain these emotions any more. Sometimes when we overreact it doesn't mean we're being moody, but that we're carrying a weight that is hurting us, and ...
