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

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

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Additional authors
  1. Stucky, Rita J.
  2. Higgins, Raymond L.
Description
  1. xxii, 327 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Wiley series on personality processes, 0195-4008
Uniform title
  1. Wiley series on personality processes
Subject
  1. Excuses > Psychological aspects
  2. Self Concept
  3. Defense Mechanisms
  4. Psychology, Applied
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographies and indexes.
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