background and objective: different personality aspects including identity styles, self-efficacy, and cognitive abilities can play a certain role in successful learning result in high educational success. we assessed the value of identity styles, self-efficacy and metacognition beliefs for predicting the level of educational success in female high-school students. methods: in a cross-sectional ...

Describes the outlines of a computational explication of the belief–desire theory of emotion, a variant of cognitive emotion theory. According to the proposed explication, a core subset of emotions including surprise are nonconceptual products of hardwired mechanisms whose primary function is to subserve the monitoring and updating of the central representational system of humans, the belief–de...

In their target article, Tracy and Robins (this issue) offer a far-reaching and generative theory of self-conscious emotion. The central assertion is that the self-conscious emotions differ from other well-studied emotions, such as fear or anger, and their understanding requires concepts from the self literature. The focus of this commentary is to sharpen the discussion regarding the unique fac...

Regulated by self-consciousness, self-deception is a part of the self-system that suppresses negative aspects of the self and maintains a positive moral self-concept. We tested this evolutionary hypothesis on 166 college students by measuring self-deception using both a questionnaire and a series of hypothetical helping scenarios. The results showed a positive correlation between self-deception...

Thucydides self-consciously invented a new form of inquiry, which can reasonably be called “social and political science.” His intellectual goal was a new understanding of power and its relationship to human agency and the deep structures of human society. His understanding of agency and structure is in some ways reminiscent of the reflexivity theory developed by Anthony

The manuscript “Self-knowledge, self-consciousness and objectification” is the text of Sesemann’s collection, Vilnius University (F122-102). in notebook dates from third quarter 1954 (Krasnokamsk). notes were made ink, some pencil. was written during Sesemann's stay a labor camp Taishet (Irkutsk region) 1950-1955. Due to limited volume publications journal, only part given.

The correlates between public and private self-consciousness and internalizing difficulties were examined during early adolescence. Friendship quality was assessed as a possible moderator of the relation between self-consciousness and maladjustment. One hundred and thirty-seven young adolescents (N = 87girls; M age = 13.98 years) reported on their self-consciousness, internalizing problems, and...