Roy Baumeister is Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU) is a public Research University located in Tallahassee He is a social psychologist that is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, and aggression. In Psychology, self-esteem reflects a Person 's overall evaluation or appraisal of her or his own worth He has authored nearly 300 publications and has written or co-written 20 books including his most recent work, The Cultural Animal. [1] He earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and his M.A. from Duke University. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. A Master of Arts ( Latin: Magister Artium) is a Postgraduate academic Master's degree awarded by universities in a large Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. He returned to Princeton University with his mentor Edward E. Jones and earned his Ph.D. in 1978. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Edward Ellsworth Jones (1927–1993 also known as "Ned" Jones was an influential social psychologist who worked at Duke University for most of his career "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. He is a fellow of both the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science. The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP is an academic society for personality and social psychologists with over 4500 members worldwide The Association for Psychological Science (APS previously the American Psychological Society is a society for scientific Psychology, whose mission is to "promote Dr. Baumeister was named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2003.
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Professor Baumeister has conducted research on the self, including various concepts related to how people perceive, act, and relate to their selves. Baumeister wrote a chapter titled, "The Self" in The Handbook of social Psychology, and reviewed the research on the self-esteem in which he claimed that the importance of self-esteem is overrated. In Psychology, self-esteem reflects a Person 's overall evaluation or appraisal of her or his own worth He also established that various self-destructive actions are a strategy to escape the self.
The need to belong is a highly cited work form 1995, written with Mark Leary, showing that humans have a natural need to belong with others. Later, Baumeister published evidence that the way people look for belongingness differs between men and women. Women prefer a few close and intimate relationships, whereas men prefer many but shallower connections. Men realize more of their need to belong via a group of people, or a cause, rather than in close interpersonal relations.
Baumeister also researched self-regulation or self-control). He coined the term Ego depletion about the finding that humans ability to self-regulate is limited and after using it there is less ability (or energy) to self-regulate. Ego depletion refers to the idea that Self-control and other mental processes that require focused conscious effort rely on energy that can be used up Baumeister also edited two academic books on self-regulation: "Losing Control" and "Handbook of self-regulation"
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References
- ^ Baumeister, R. Ego depletion refers to the idea that Self-control and other mental processes that require focused conscious effort rely on energy that can be used up Negativity bias is the name for a psychological phenomenon by which humans pay more Attention to and give more weight to negative than positive experiences (2005). The cultural animal. New York: Oxford University Press.
External links
- Roy Baumeister's Page at Florida State
- Lab Website
- Social Psychology Network Professional Profile
- Is There Anything Good About Men? (2007)
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