Cross-cultural perspectives have brought renewed interest in the social aspects of the self
and the extent to which individuals define themselves in terms of their relationships to others …

Mfost of social psychology's theories of the self fail to take into account the significance of
social identification in the definition of self. Social identities are self-definitions that are more …

Our focus in the present volume is on the social self, that is, the study of self and identity as
these are embedded in interpersonal relationships and social group memberships. The …

In 4 studies, the authors examined antecedents of self-definition as either a unique
individual (the individual self) or an interchangeable group member (the collective self) …

This edited volume addresses key issues relating to the concept of self, an increasingly
researched area of social psychology. The self-concept consists of three fundamental self …

Leading theoreticians and researchers present current thinking about the role played by
group memberships in people's sense of who they are and what they are worth. The …

A new measure sensitive to differences in the importance that people ascribe to their social
(group) and personal identities is described. The Social and Personal Identities (SIPI) scale …

Social identity theory as developed by Tajfel and Turner argues that there are two distinct
aspects of the self-concept: personal identity and social identity (in American terminology …

Since the publication of Markus and Kitayama's pivotal article on culture and the self, the
concepts of independent, relational, and interdependent self-construal have become …

William James (1890) distinguished between the “I” and the “Me.” The “I” is the self as
experienced, the active thinking processor. The “Me” is the stock of empirical information …