Self continuity
Subtitle: individual and collective perspectives
By: editor, Fabio Sani.
Contributors: Sani, Fabio, 1961-
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; Psychology Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780805857016
Subjects: Self; Identity (Psychology); Continuity
Description: "This volume is the first to bring together the fast-growing research on self-continuity from multiple perspectives within and beyond social psychology." "The book covers individual and collective aspects of self-continuity, while a final section explores the relationship between these two forms. Topics include environmental and cultural influences on self-continuity; the interplay of autobiographical memory and personal self-continuity; the psychological function of self-continuity; personal and collective self-continuity; and resistance to change. The volume is rounded off with commentaries on the central issues and themes that have been discussed." "The book provides a unique sourcebook for this important topic and will appeal not only to upper-level students and researchers in social psychology, but, in view of the multiple perspectives represented in the volume, it will also appeal to cognitive, developmental, and personality psychologists."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Fabio Sani; title: Cultural and societal dimensions of self-continuity; title: Self in time  : emergence within a community of minds / Katherine Nelson; title: Toward a cultural phenomenology of personal identity / Romin W. Tafarodi; title: Self-continuity, autobiographical memory, and identity; title: Autobiographical memory in childhood and the development of a continuous self / Amy Bird & Elaine Reese; title: Remembering being me : the self-continuity function of autobiographical memory in younger and older adults / Susan Bluck & Nicole Alea; title: The contributions of autobiographical memory to the content and continuity of identity : a social-cognitive neuroscience approach / Donna Rose Addis & Lynette J. Tippett; title: Self-continuity motives and maintenance strategies; title: The never-ending story : a terror management perspective on the psychological function of self-continuity / Mark J. Landau, Jeff Greenberg & Sheldon Solomon; title: Spanning time : an amoebic-self perspective/ Christopher T. Burris & John K. Rempel; title: The continuity of groups and collective selves; title: Perceiving continuity and change in groups / David L. Hamilton, John M. Levine & Joel A. Thurston; title: The intergenerational self : subjective perspectives and family history / Robyn Fivush, Jennifer G. Bohanek & Marshall Duke; title: Making a past fit for the future : the political and ontological dimensions of historical continuity / Steve Reicher; title: Perceived collective continuity : seeing groups as temporally enduring entities / Fabio Sani, Mhairi Bowe & Marina Herrera; title: Collective self-continuity in a time of change; title: Leaders as agents of continuity: self-continuity and resistance to collective change / Daan van Knippenberg, Barbara van Knippenberg & Andrea Bobbio; title: Torn between identities : predictors of adjustment to identity change; title: Aarti Iyer, Jolanda Jetten & Dimitrios Tsivrikos; title: The interplay between individual and collective self-continuity; title: Conceptions of the human self and human rights : implications for the psychological continuity of less inclusive selves / Mark Nolan & Nyla Branscombe; title: Personal persistence and persistent peoples : continuities in the lives of individual and whole cultural communities / Michael J. Chandler & Travis Proulx; title: Nostalgia as enabler of self- continuity / Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut, Lowell Gaertner, Clay Routledge & Jamie Arndt; title: Commentaries; title: Know thyself! but what, how and why? / Philippe Rochat; title: Commenting on continuity : a view from social psychology / Russell Spears.