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Professor, Psychological an Brain Sciences

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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University of Missouri - (Columbia, Missouri, United States)

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University of Missouri - (Columbia, Missouri, United States)

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Kansas State University - (Manhattan, Kansas, United States)

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Engagement with art and meaning in life: the predictive roles of awe, interest, supernatural attributions

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The Authentic Catch-22: the Effect of Following True Self on Decision Satisfaction in Moral Dilemmas

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Integrating Making with Authentic Science Classes: An Approach and Evidence

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Personal Aspirations, Person-Environment Fit, Meaning in Work, and Meaning in Life: A Moderated Mediation Model

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Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support

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Liking Predicts Judgments of Authenticity in Real-Time Interactions More Robustly Than Personality States or Affect.

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Exploring the Link Between Identity Avoidance and Perceived Self-Knowledge.

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Following ones true self and the sacredness of cultural values

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How Do People Judge Meaning in Goal-Directed Behaviors: The Interplay Between Self-Concordance and Performance.

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The dynamic interplay between perceived true self-knowledge and decision satisfaction.

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Animal Magnetism: Metaphoric Cues Alter Perceptions of Romantic Partners and Relationships.

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Civic Hope and the Perceived Authenticity of Democratic Participation

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Existential Ennui: Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Self-Alienation and Academic Amotivation

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Spillover of authenticity from work to home: The mediating role of affect

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Remembering gay/lesbian media characters: can Ellen and Will improve attitudes toward homosexuals?

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Predictors of depressive symptoms among breast cancer patients during the first year post diagnosis.

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Origins of the Belief in Good True Selves

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To discover or to create: metaphors and the true self.

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Is the Illusion of Authenticity Beneficial? Merely Perceiving Decisions as Guided by the True Self Enhances Decision Satisfaction

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Does expertise matter in replication? An examination of the reproducibility project: Psychology

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Rural and urban breast cancer patients: health locus of control and psychological adjustment.

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Threats to belongingness and meaning in life: A test of the compensation among sources of meaning

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Why do people believe in a "true self"? The role of essentialist reasoning about personal identity and the self.

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Becoming your true self: Perceptions of authenticity across the lifespan

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The Reciprocal Relationship Between Perceptions of Moral Goodness and Knowledge of Others' True Selves

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The True Self and Psychological Health: Emerging Evidence and Future Directions

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Self-Concordant Goal-Striving as Internalized Motivation: Benefits Beyond Person-Goal Fit

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Resilience and well-being among persons with spinal cord injury/disorders.

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Expectancy violations and the search for meaning among breast cancer survivors.

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Feeling like you know who you are: perceived true self-knowledge and meaning in life.

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When race trumps political ideology: Black teachers who advocate for social responsibility are penalized by both liberals and conservatives.

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Alcohol primes, expectancies, and the working self-concept.

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Why do People Believe in a "True Self"? The Role of Essentialist Reasoning about Personal Identity and the Self

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Explaining Extremity in Evaluation of Group Members: Meta-Analytic Tests of Three Theories.

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True self-attributions shape judgments of blame in the context of addiction-relevant crime.

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The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas

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Understanding the Relationship Between Perceived Authenticity and Well-Being

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Experiential appreciation as a pathway to meaning in life.

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The breast cancer experience of rural women: a literature review.

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Social roles, basic need satisfaction, and psychological health: the central role of competence.

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Abstract construal levels attenuate state self-esteem reactivity

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Approaching the true self: Promotion focus predicts the experience of authenticity

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'I Make, Therefore I Am': The Effects of CurriculumAligned Making on Children's Self-Identity

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Guide to Elementary Statistics for Psychology

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Authentic for Thee But Not for Me: Perceived Authenticity in Self-Control Conflicts.

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For the love of my child: How parents' relative extrinsic aspirations for children and interdependent self-construal predict their relational well-being

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The Effect of True Self-Attributions on the Endorsement of Retributive and Restorative Justice.

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Reflections on the Scientific Study of Meaning in Life

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Origins of the Belief in Good True Selves.

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Guide to Elementary Statistics for Psychology

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STUCK IN AN EXISTENTIAL QUAGMIRE: THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED TRUE SELF-KNOWLEDGE IN CLIENT STUCKNESS

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Chapter 9 Authenticity and the true self in religion and spirituality

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Thinking about a new decade in life increases personal self-reflection: A replication and reinterpretation of Alter and Hershfield's (2014) findings.

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Guilty, but not ashamed: "true" self-conceptions influence affective responses to personal shortcomings.

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The Development of Intellectual Humility as an Impact of a Week-Long Philosophy Summer Camp for Teens and Tweens

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Authenticity: Novel Insights Into a Valued, Yet Elusive, Concept

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Feelings of Parental Authenticity Moderate Concurrent Links Between Breastfeeding Experience and Symptoms of Postpartum Depression.

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Authenticity, meaning in life, and life satisfaction: A multicomponent investigation of relationships at the trait and state levels.

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Making in the classroom: Longitudinal evidence of increases in self-efficacy and STEM possible selves over time

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Thine own self: true self-concept accessibility and meaning in life.

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Approaching the True Self: Promotion Focus Predicts the Experience of Authenticity

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Moral Goodness Is the Essence of Personal Identity.

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THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED AUTHENTICITY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY FROM COLLECTIVE TRAUMA

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True self-alienation positively predicts reports of mindwandering.

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Emotional, motivational and attitudinal consequences of autonomous prosocial behaviour

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Social threats, happiness, and the dynamics of meaning in life judgments.

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The feasibility and effectiveness of expressive writing for rural and urban breast cancer survivors.

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THINKING ABOUT CHANGE IN THE SELF AND OTHERS: THE ROLE OF SELF-DISCOVERY METAPHORS AND THE TRUE SELF

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The influence of breast cancer survivors' perceived partner social support and need satisfaction on depressive symptoms: a longitudinal analysis.

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Daily mental lapses and the subjective experience of true self-alienation

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The importance of who you really are: The role of the true self in eudaimonia.

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Straying From the Righteous Path and From Ourselves: The Interplay Between Perceptions of Morality and Self-Knowledge.

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Who Needs Individual Responsibility? Audience Race and Message Content Influence Third-Party Evaluations of Political Messages

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A window to the true self: The importance of I-sharing in romantic relationships

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Broadening the Structure of Meaning in Life: Experiential Appreciation as an Indicator of Existential Meaning

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Perceiving persons and their purposes: teleology, normativity, and personal identity

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The Authentic Moral Self: Dynamic Interplay between Perceived Authenticity and Moral Behaviors in the Workplace

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The true self and existential structure? Unexpected effects of mortality salience and personal need for structure on belief in a true self

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Authenticity and self-esteem across temporal horizons

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Does being angry feel authentic? a test of how affective valence and motivational direction differentially influence state authenticity

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Following one's true self and the sacredness of cultural values

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Examining the True Self as a Wellspring of Meaning

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The Authentic Moral Self: Dynamic Interplay between Perceived Authenticity and Moral Behaviors in the Workplace

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Rural breast cancer patients, coping and depressive symptoms: a prospective comparison study.

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Feelings of authenticity and civic engagement

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Gender and race disparities in the evaluation of COVID-19 impact statements for tenure and promotion candidates

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Strategies: Making the Maker: A Pathway to STEM for Elementary School Students

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Science Modeling through Physical Computing:Contextualized Computational and Scientific Learning in the Grade 5-6 Classroom

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Preparing Students for the New Manufacturing Economy: An Integrative Learning Approach

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Directorate for Education & Human Resources - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Psychology; 4235 TAMU

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Texas A&M Researchers To Test Technology-Based Learning At Bryan Independent School District