The Curse of the Self: Self-Awareness, Egotism, and the by Mark R. Leary

March 16, 2017 adminSocial Psychology Interactions

By Mark R. Leary

regardless of its noticeable benefits, our skill to be self-reflective comes at a excessive cost. Few humans detect how profoundly their lives are laid low with self-reflection or how usually internal chatter interferes with their luck, pollutes their relationships with others, and undermines their happiness. through permitting humans to ruminate in regards to the prior or think what could take place sooner or later, self-reflection inspires loads of own soreness within the type of melancholy, anxiousness, anger, jealousy, and different destructive feelings. loads of disappointment, within the kind of addictions, overeating, and family violence, is because of people's lack of ability to exert regulate over their suggestions and behaviour. Is it attainable to direct our self-reflection in a manner that may reduce the negative aspects and maximize the benefits? Is there the way to have an effect on the egotistical self via self-reflection? during this quantity, Mark Leary explores the private and social difficulties which are created by way of the means for self-reflection, and via drawing upon psychology and different behavioral sciences, deals insights into how those difficulties may be minimized.

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