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Showing 1 to 20 of 4411 for “"The Self"”.
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Finding the Self
<p>This manuscript addresses the results of acknowledging the impulse to create and the consequent process of working and reworking the original creation to the finished product of a poem. In my critical introduction, I discuss the craft techniques of Billy Collins, E. E. Cummings, Ralph Waldo …
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Gaze of the Self
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Agency and the Self
This thesis attempts to show that an adequate account of human agency requires postulation of a substantial self that is intrinsically active. It proposes and defends a coherent picture of this self's relation to its states, notably, to its motives; and it tries to establish the conditions for …
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The self-aware city
This thesis explores the idea of real-time urban space management. While increasing amounts of real-time information about the city, specifically the location of people and resources, appear, it becomes necessary to explore how different strategies of distributing real-time location information can …
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The self-concept of psychopaths
"Many studies have supported the existence of a relationship between the self-concept and behavior; however, little is known about the nature of this relationship: Is the self-concept the cause or the result of behavior? To resolve this dilemna is not the intention of the present study. Our purpose …
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Imagination, content, and the self
… of two ways of imagining something: 'from the inside' and 'from the outside'. My interest in this topic is two-fold: First, I want to see what studying this topic can teach us about the nature of mental content -- in particular, about the content of de se and de re thoughts. Second, I want …
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Physique and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
… today are confronted with many problems in their everyday lives. It is difficult to tell how each individual overcomes these problems, but we do know that some problems are overcome more easily than others. This study was concerned with two problem levels, (a) those problems which were …
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Redefining the self in postmodern cyberspace
… metaphor for an alternative reality situated in the linear, physical world but yet capable of transcending it. The otherness of cyberspace manifests itself through virtual transient worlds, reconstituting the stable human subject in a radically interactive electronic medium. The study identifies …
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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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Surviving matters : pluralism and the self
The concept of personal identity or survival is intimately entwined with a whole host of our self- and other- directed beliefs, concerns, and practices. We naturally and habitually believe and judge certain people to be the same persons over time; identify and reidentify them; trust them; love …
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Surviving matters : pluralism and the self
The concept of personal identity or survival is intimately entwined with a whole host of our self- and other- directed beliefs, concerns, and practices. We naturally and habitually believe and judge certain people to be the same persons over time; identify and reidentify them; trust them; love …
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Educating the self through aesthetic experience
This study calls for a shift in the way we think about the mode, meaning, and purpose of education by recognizing the aesthetic dimension. Through deepening Deweyan aesthetic theory with D.W. Winnicott’s ideas on the self, I am addressing a crucial gap in educational literature pertaining to the …
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Social Interaction and the Self-Concept
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:50:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0010511.pdf: 3416389 bytes, checksum: a54b2a38dc29027dafc730c4c51531a5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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The self-service ice cream cabinet
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Industrial Management, 1958
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Measuring the self-efficacy of virtual leaders
Accurately measuring the phenomena we intend to study is a foundational aspect of research and practice. Thus, the focus of this research was to develop a measure of Virtual Leader Self-Efficacy (VLSE), which had not been examined in the past. Two studies were conducted. The first served to develop …
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The self-presentation profile of grandiose narcissism
… that grandiose narcissism is related to using self-presentation tactics, many fundamental questions about this issue remain unanswered. For example, among 12 common self-presentation tactics, which are typical of grandiose narcissism? Is grandiose narcissism related to assertive …
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Imagery and the self in social phobia
… & Wells, 1995; Rapee & Heimberg, 1997) emphasise the importance of negative self-images in the maintenance of social phobia. Although evidence suggests that in social phobia these images influence some cognitive, affective and behavioural responses in social situations, it is unclear how they …
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