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Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life

Series: Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life
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Episodes
12
Rating
TVPG
Year
2021
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

Explore the forefront of recent studies in self-presentation. After more than 40 years of experience in psychology and neuroscience-and with wry humor and a talent for distilling difficult concepts into manageable parts- Professor Mark Leary makes this fascinating topic accessible to audiences everywhere. Step up to a thought-provoking journey into the workings of the human social mind.

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Episodes

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1. Self-Presentation in Everyday Life

32m

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Follow Professor Mark Leary of Duke University through the basics of self-presentation, his primary area of scholarship for more than 40 years in the field of social psychology. Discover both how we form impressions about other people in everyday life and how we attempt to manage their impressions of us.

2. Tactics for Managing Impressions

32m

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Professor Leary takes viewers into the compelling world of impression management--from physical appearance and body language to verbal cues and explicit statements about ourselves. Learn about the wide variety of tactics we use to get people to see us in particular ways in our efforts to reach the goals we would like to attain.

3. Fitting In and Playing Roles

33m

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The balance that all humans strike between conformity and individuality has critical bearing on the quality and happiness of our lives. Although we are often reminded of the importance of individuality, it is actually conformity that allows us to function as social animals. Explore the role that self-presentation plays in finding "optimal distinctiveness."

4. Playing to the Audience's Values

33m

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Know your audience. Learn why their impressions matter and how we shift from one self-presentational performance to another, depending on the values of the people with whom we interact. In our efforts to be seen as likable, competent, and virtuous, we tailor our self-presentation to the preferences of those around us.

5. When Undesirable Personas Are Deliberate

34m

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Generally, we want to be perceived in positive ways. What happens when, in pursuit of a particular goal, we manage impressions to look aggressive, incompetent, or ill instead? Professor Leary unpacks our motivations for presenting socially undesirable impressions, and the antisocial behavior that such impression management can generate.

6. Your Public Persona and Your Self-Image

33m

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People differ in the kinds of impressions they try to create and the tactics they use to do so. From the publicly self-conscious, to those who rarely seem to care what others think, discover several psychological characteristics that influence self-presentation.

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Mark Learyactor