Mark Leary || The Self, Identity, and Removing the Mask

The Psychology Podcast

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week I'm thrilled to welcome Mark Leary, Ph.D. to The Psychology Podcast! Dr. Leary is the Garonzik Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and author of The Curse of the Self. His research interests focus on social motivation and emotion, and on processes involving self-reflection and self-relevant thought. He has written or edited 12 books and over 200 scholarly articles and chapters. He was the 2010 recipient of the Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity and a 2015 co-recipient of the Scientific Impact Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. During our chat we covered a number of mutual research interests including: Links: Read Dr. Leary's new blog at PsychologyToday Self-esteem, identity and their relationships to behavior The distinction between “instrumental social value" and "relational social value" The human need for belonging The concept of “self-presentation strategies" and their variations: Imposter syndrome Self-promotion Ingratiation The difference between egoism and egotism --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:02.0	welcome to the psychology podcast where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.
0:07.0	Each episode will feature a guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater
0:11.0	understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:13.9	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:17.3	If you like what you hear today, please add a rating and review in iTunes.
0:20.9	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Mark is professor of psychology
0:44.9	and neuroscience and director of the Interdisciplinary Behavioral Research Center at Duke
0:49.4	University. His editor of the Handbook of Self and Identity and author of The Curse of This Self.
0:55.8	Mark, really excited to chat with you today.
0:58.2	Great to talk with you, Scott.
0:59.4	You're one of my heroes.
1:01.0	You're one of my heroes.
1:01.8	Well, thank you. I really have great respect for your
1:09.8	work. You know, thought of a bunch of questions I'd like to ask you and I want you to feel free to add any topics you'd like to discuss.
1:17.0	Okay.
1:18.0	First I want to start with a really easy one and that's, what's the difference between the self and identity? I thought I just
1:24.4	jump into the deep end. Yeah I mean self has been defined in 17 different ways in
1:30.4	the literature. The way I think of the self is just the cognitive apparatus that allows us to
1:36.5	be self-aware and to think about ourselves consciously. So the self, when you think of
1:41.3	it that way, it doesn't have any content it's just the
1:43.3	mental apparatus that allows self-awareness and self-thought.
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