Themes of Identity: An Auto-Ethnographical Exploration

An Exploration of Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing

The view that academic writing is purely objective, impersonal and informational, which is often reflected in English for Academic Purposes materials, has been criticized by a number of researchers. By now, the view of academic writing as embodying interaction among writers, readers and the academic community as a whole has been established. Following this assumption, the present study focused ...

An Identity of Jack Polynomials

In this work we give an alterative proof of one of basic properties of zonal polynomials and generalised it for Jack polynomials

Bereavement in twin relationships: an exploration of themes from a study of twinship.

The primary foci of twin research have been on twins as a biological phenomenon, on the management of medical complications of twin pregnancy and birth and on the study of individual differences and development by psychologists and geneticists for whom twins provide a powerful research tool. The twin relationship - twinship - has received less research attention, including the aspect of bereave...

Test Reactivity: Does the Measurement of Identity Serve as an Impetus for Identity Exploration?

The purpose of the current study was to determine if test reactivity is a concern in empirical studies of identity. That is, the goal was to establish if the process of measuring identity provokes identity exploration. Should measuring an individual’s identity lead him or her to begin considering identity-relevant issues, the experimenter has unintentionally altered the degree to which one is e...

Social Identity and Social Preferences: An Empirical Exploration