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Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life

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Examine the tactics we use, both positive and negative, to manage other people’s impressions and to achieve our goals, in this illuminating course taught by a professor of psychology.

Syllabus

  • 01: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life
  • 02: Tactics for Managing Impressions
  • 03: Fitting In and Playing Roles
  • 04: Playing to the Audience’s Values
  • 05: When Undesirable Personas Are Deliberate
  • 06: Your Public Persona and Your Self-Image
  • 07: Self-Presentation in Close Relationships
  • 08: Managing Your Image at Work
  • 09: Social Anxiety and Self-Presentation
  • 10: Self-Presentation Dilemmas and Disasters
  • 11: The Dangers of Self-Presentation
  • 12: Behind the Mask: Who Are You Really?
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Mark Leary

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