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SELF-CONCEPT

Book Chapters:

Vallacher, R. R. (1980).  An introduction to self theory.  In D. M. Wegner & R. R. Vallacher (Eds.), The self in social psychology (pp. 3‑30).  New York: Oxford University Press.

Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (2000).  Landscapes of self-reflection: Mapping the peaks and valleys of personal assessment.  In A. Tesser, R. Felson, & J. Suls (Eds.), Psychological perspectives on self and identity (pp. 35-65).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Nowak, A. Vallacher, R. R., & Zochowski, M. (2002).  The emergence of personality: Personal stability through interpersonal synchronization.  In D. Cervone & W. Mischel (Eds.), Advances in personality science (Vol. 1, pp. 292-331).  New York: Guilford Publications.

Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (2006).  Coherence in human experience and psychological science.  In P. Van Lange (Ed.), Bridging social psychology: The benefits of transdisciplinary approaches (pp. 77-82).  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Vallacher, R. R. (2006).  Self-concept.  In N. J. Salkind & K. DeRuyck (Eds.), The encyclopedia of human development.  New York: Sage Publications.

Vallacher, R. R. & Nowak, A. (2007). Dynamical social psychology: Finding order in the flow of human experience. In A. W. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd ed, pp. 734-758). New York: Guilford Publications.

Vallacher, R. R. (1978).  Objective self awareness and the perception of others.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 63‑67.

Vallacher, R. R., & Solodky, M. (1979).  Objective self awareness, standards of evaluation, and moral behavior.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 15, 254‑262.

Wegner, D. M., Vallacher, R. R., Kiersted, G. W., & Dizadji, D. M. (1986).  Action identification in the emergence of social behavior.  Social Cognition, 4, 18‑38.

Vallacher, R. R., & Wegner, D. M. (1987).  What do people think they're doing?  Action identification and human behavior.  Psychological Review, 94, 3‑15.

Vallacher, R. R., Wegner, D. M., & Frederick, J. (1987).  The presentation of self through action identification.  Social Cognition, 5, 301‑322.

Vallacher, R. R., & Wegner, D. M. (1989).  Levels of personal agency: Individual variation in action identification.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 660‑671.

Vallacher, R. R., Wegner, D. M., McMahan, S. C., Cotter, J., & Larsen, K.  A. (1992).  On winning friends and influencing people: Action identification and self‑presentation success.  Social Cognition, 10, 335‑355.

Rudich, E. & Vallacher, R. R.  (1999).  To belong or to self-enhance?  The motivational bases for choosing interaction partners.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 1387-1404.

Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., Tesser, A., & Borkowski, W. (2000).  Society of self: The emergence of collective properties in self-structure.  Psychological Review, 107, 39-61.

Vallacher, R. R., Nowak, A., Froehlich, M., & Rockloff, M. (2002).  The dynamics of self-evaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 370-379.

Nowak, A. & Vallacher, R. R. (2005).  The emergence of personality: Dynamic foundations of individual variation.  Developmental Review, 25, 351-385.

Nowak, A., Strawinska, U., Johnson, S., & Vallacher, R. R. (2005).  Malfunction of self-regulation in low self-esteem and depression.  Psychology Colloquia, 13, 67-83.