Building, Defending, and Regulating the Self: A Psychological Perspective - Tapa dura

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Abraham Tesser, Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, is a former Editor of the Journalof Personality and Social Psychology and a former President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Recognition of his research on self-evaluation and on thought and ruminative processes includes the Donald T. Campbell Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity.

After completing her Ph.D. at UCLA, Joanne Wood has held faculty positions at SUNY-Stony Brook and at the University of Waterloo. She has served as an associate editor of Personality and SocialPsychology Bulletin and on the editorial boards for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal ofExperimental Social Psychology, Personality and SocialPsychology Bulletin, and Self and Identity. Wood's publications concern affect regulation, social comparison, and mechanisms underlying the maintenance of self-esteem.

Diederik Stapel, Professor at the University of Groningen, is a former Associate Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and has served on the editorial boards of Self and Identity, EuropeanJournal of Social Psychology, and Personality and SocialPsychology Bulletin. For his research on knowledge accessibility effects he earned the Jos Jaspars Award of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology. Stapel's publications concern person perception, unconscious emotional responses, and social comparison.