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The Dynamic Self-Concept: A Social Psychological Perspective

Annual Review of Psychology · 1987 · Vol. 38(1) · pp. 299–337
Hazel Rose MarkusElissa Wurf

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incorporating first behaviors (e.g. good at doing sums), then traits (smart), then single abstractions (scientific), then higher order abstrac­ tions (intellectual). Within each of the phases, there is an alternating sequence of first overgeneralizing self-conceptions and then differentiating

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