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Excuses : masquerades in search of grace / C.R. Snyder, Raymond L. Higgins, Rita J. Stucky.

Title
Excuses : masquerades in search of grace / C.R. Snyder, Raymond L. Higgins, Rita J. Stucky.
Author
Snyder, C. R.
Publication
New York : Wiley, c1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Stucky, Rita J.
  • Higgins, Raymond L.
Description
xxii, 327 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Wiley series on personality processes, 0195-4008
Uniform Title
Wiley series on personality processes
Subject
  • Psychology, Applied
  • Defense Mechanisms
  • Self Concept
  • Excuses > Psychological aspects
Note
  • "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Browsing through the excuses costume shop -- The philosophical backdrop to the excuse masquerade -- Theory of excuses: positive images for others and self -- Retrospective excuses: masquerades for the past -- Anticipatory excuses: masquerades for the future -- The excuse-making actors: individual differences in locus of control -- The development of excuse-making -- Excuses gone awry -- Interventions for excuses -- The values of excuse-making.
ISBN
0471877026
LCCN
^^^83006615^
OCLC
  • 9576037
  • SCSB-14231038
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library