Lost possible selves are a relatively new concept developed within the framework of Pos- sible Selves proposed by H. Markus and P. Nurius. were studied in young adults aged 20 to 42 (N = 59). The purpose was clarify content “Lost Possible Selves”, as well describe forms their representation connection with cognitive strategies for constructing identity. We used method based on methodology K. Ho...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether adolescents' satisfaction with orthodontic treatment outcomes is correlated with the degree to which (1) the adolescents focused on and (2) were energized by imagining their posttreatment possible selves before the treatment, and whether parents' assessments of their children's pretreatment motivation would correlate with their children's posttreatment satisfactio...

A self or person does not appear to be identifiable with his or her organic body, nor with any part of it, such as the brain; and yet selves seem to be agents, capable of bringing about physical events (such as bodily movements) as causal consequences of certain of their conscious mental states. How is this possible in a universe in which, it appears, every physical event has a sufficient cause...