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Self -Awareness and Self -Interpretation
This dissertation examines the phenomenology of self-awareness in an attempt to get clear on the nature of our 'basic sense of self'. I argue that our self-understanding is typically muddled by a prevalent but false metaphysical view that I refer to as 'the quasi-Cartesian view'. I begin with a …
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Self-identification and self-knowledge
The traditional view has it that self-locating beliefs are distinctive in that they have distinctive contents. Against this, I claim that the distinctive element of self-locating beliefs should be placed outside contents. If someone believes that he himself is hungry, he not only has a …
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Unlocking the self in self-writing
In this thesis I develop a critical approach to self-writing and especially to the ‘deliberately introspective’ diary. An important element in the work is an analysis of how issues surrounding the discussion of the self, free-will, and voice have been negotiated by critics of self-writing and two …
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Self-endorsing effect of brand filters: How the self, self-congruity, and perceived self-expressiveness lead to persuasion
I investigated the self-endorsing effect of brand filters on brand attitudes, purchase intentions, sharing intentions, and whether self-congruity and perceived self-expressiveness mediate the relationship between these variables. I conducted two laboratory experiments each with two conditions …
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Determining and characterizing immunological self/non-self
The immune system has the ability to discriminate self from non-self proteins and also make appropriate immune responses to pathogens. A fundamental problem is to understand the genomic differences and similarities among the sets of self peptides and non-self peptides. The sequencing of human, …
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Reflexive Awareness (Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, Self-Awareness)
… of an experience of dissociatively watching oneself. I call this awareness, RA*. It is to be contrasted with two other sorts of reflexive awareness: (i) awareness of the fact that I am now aware (e.g., there is a visual object before me, therefore I must be seeing), (ii) awareness of past …
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Wordsworth's Decline: Self-editing and Editing the Self
… continuous, career-long processes of revision or self-editing. This self-editing took two forms: First, the explicit form, whereby Wordsworth actually emended his poetry; and second, the implicit form, whereby Wordsworth sought, through his poetry, to amend his self-image by constructing an …
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RELATIONSHIPS AMONGST SELF-COMPASSION, SELF-ESTEEM AND SCHIZOTYPY
… the nature of the relationships between self-compassion, self-esteem and schizotypy using a non-clinical sample. A secondary aim was to investigate the mechanisms which help to explain any relationships found. In utilising a non-clinical sample the study aimed to determine whether …
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An analysis of self constructs and self variables
… meaning implicit in the various uses of the term self' by contemporary psychologists in theory and measurement is a task which has been avoided by historians to date. Examination of a range of the general psychology-psychiatry-philosophy history texts gives merely a sketch of one or two of the …
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An analysis of self constructs and self variables
… meaning implicit in the various uses of the term self' by contemporary psychologists in theory and measurement is a task which has been avoided by historians to date. Examination of a range of the general psychology-psychiatry-philosophy history texts gives merely a sketch of one or two of the …
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A self-configuring and self-administering name system
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2001.
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self-imAGE
… difference between media images and their own self-images.
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Self/portrait
SELF/PORTRAIT is an exploration of the creative process. Based in the genre of portraiture, this collection of work seeks to reveal the ways in which the artist's relationships and circumstances have factored into the creation of the resulting exhibition. This exploration involves the assessment of …
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Fragmented Self
… me to explore and understand my past and my own Self. In line with James Baldwin's views, I believe that the duty of an artist is to provide their audience with an opportunity to rediscover themselves; to help them explore their inner selves. In my experience, to achieve that goal, the first and …
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Self-Regulation in Decisions for the Self Versus Others
… keeping with what is socially valued. Studies on self-regulation have shown that depletion leads to more heuristic-based decision making. It was hypothesized that depletion would not affect decisions for others the way it affects decisions for the self because deciding for others is already a …
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The False Self and True Self: A Christian Perspective
… themselves wrongly (i.e., constructing a false self)? (3) What does true self-understanding entail? (4) What interventions can foster true self-understanding? Chapter 2 presents a biblical response, with specific focus on passages from Proverbs, Matthew’s Gospel, and Paul’s letters. Chapter 3 …
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Narcissism, self-esteem, self-worth as predictors of aggression
… and aggression, and between narcissism and self-esteem. Indeed, aspects of narcissism predict both adjusted and maladjusted forms of functioning. Therefore, narcissism appears to be both adaptive and maladaptive. In the present study, maladjusted narcissism was directly correlated with …
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Counselor Self-Efficacy: Relationship with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
… that mindfulness may be a predictor in counselor self-efficacy (Bentley, 2008; Greason & Cashwell, 2009; Kane, 2010). However, a review of literature indicates that this relationship, along with the mediating effects of self-compassion, have not been examined quantitatively with mental health …
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