Uniqueness The Human Pursuit of Difference
My Red Shirt and Me The red shirt incident begins with a rather ordinary red shirt. Not a brightly colored red shirt, not a dramatic cherry or firehouse red, more like a faded burgundy. But, for several days, my very iden tity was bound up in its redness. It was me, and I wore it with the pride a m...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1980, 1980
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1980 |
| Series: | Perspectives in Social Psychology
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Table of Contents:
- I: A Case for Uniqueness
- 1 Literary Precedents for Uniqueness
- II: Need for Uniqueness: Theory and Research
- 2 Do Birds of a Feather Always Flock Together?
- 3 Theory of Uniqueness
- 4 Corollaries of Uniqueness Theory: The Nature of the Comparison Other Persons
- 5 Individual Differences in Need for Uniqueness
- III: Uniqueness Attributes 103
- 6 Commodities as Uniqueness Attributes
- 7 Names as Uniqueness Attributes
- 8 Attitudes and Beliefs as Uniqueness Attributes
- 9 Performance as Uniqueness-Motivated Behavior
- IV: Uniqueness Seeking in Perspective
- 10 Deindividuation: Loss of Uniqueness
- 11 Individuation: The Pursuit of Difference