#201 Mark Leary: The Self, Self-presentation, And Social Status
Dr. Mark Leary is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Dr. Leary has taught at Denison University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Wake Forest University, where he also served as department chair. His research interests focus on social motivation and emotion, and on processes involving self-reflection and self-relevant thought. He has written or edited 12 books and over 200 scholarly articles and chapters. He was the 2010 recipient of the Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity and a 2015 co-recipient of the Scientific Impact Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.
In this episode, we discuss things related to our notion of “self”, how we construct it, and how we move in our social environments, deal with other people, and react to social exclusion. We deal with sociometer theory, and mental mechanisms like self-presentation, self-compassion, self-reflection, and their relationship with academic success and other life outcomes.
Time Links:
Constructs like “the self” and “ego” in Psychology
How people think about their social status
Sociometer theory, and depression and suicide
Self-presentation and social context
The narratives we create for our lives
Self-compassion
Self-reflection
Self-reflection and rumination
Do these psychological mechanisms exist cross-culturally?
Our modern societies are very distant from the ones we evolved in
Follow Dr. Leary’s work!
Follow Dr. Leary’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2G59y9f
Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2I1Zhgg
Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2HfwwuM
Toward a Less Egoic World (Psychology Today blog): https://bit.ly/2WEzLkZ
Character and Context (Society for Personality and Social Psychology blog): https://bit.ly/2JEjgS7