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Uniqueness [electronic resource] : The Human Pursuit of Difference / by C.R. Snyder, Howard L. Fromkin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Perspectives in Social PsychologyPublisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1980Edition: 1st ed. 1980Description: 252 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781468436594
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 155 23
LOC classification:
  • BF698-698.9
  • BF697-697.5
Online resources:
Contents:
I: A Case for Uniqueness -- 1 Literary Precedents for Uniqueness -- II: Need for Uniqueness: Theory and Research -- 2 Do Birds of a Feather Always Flock Together? -- 3 Theory of Uniqueness -- 4 Corollaries of Uniqueness Theory: The Nature of the Comparison Other Persons -- 5 Individual Differences in Need for Uniqueness -- III: Uniqueness Attributes 103 -- 6 Commodities as Uniqueness Attributes -- 7 Names as Uniqueness Attributes -- 8 Attitudes and Beliefs as Uniqueness Attributes -- 9 Performance as Uniqueness-Motivated Behavior -- IV: Uniqueness Seeking in Perspective -- 10 Deindividuation: Loss of Uniqueness -- 11 Individuation: The Pursuit of Difference.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: My Red Shirt and Me The red shirt incident begins with a rather ordinary red shirt. Not a brightly colored red shirt, not a dramatic cherry or firehouse red, more like a faded burgundy. But, for several days, my very iden­ tity was bound up in its redness. It was me, and I wore it with the pride a matador takes in his splendid cape, a hero in his medals of bravery, or a nun in her religious habit. I'll never forget the bound­ less joy I felt wearing that simple, pullover, short-sleeved red shirt in the hospital--or the rush of relief that I experienced when, at last, I decided to surrender it. However, we are getting ahead of our story, which starts a short time earlier with a most unfortunate accident. A light flurry of wet snow had begun to fall as the university limousine turned the corner on its way from the Bronx campus of New York University to the downtown campus. Although eight of us were packed into the car and had resigned ourselves to the usual boring faculty meeting awaiting us, somehow a spontaneous air of joviality was created.
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I: A Case for Uniqueness -- 1 Literary Precedents for Uniqueness -- II: Need for Uniqueness: Theory and Research -- 2 Do Birds of a Feather Always Flock Together? -- 3 Theory of Uniqueness -- 4 Corollaries of Uniqueness Theory: The Nature of the Comparison Other Persons -- 5 Individual Differences in Need for Uniqueness -- III: Uniqueness Attributes 103 -- 6 Commodities as Uniqueness Attributes -- 7 Names as Uniqueness Attributes -- 8 Attitudes and Beliefs as Uniqueness Attributes -- 9 Performance as Uniqueness-Motivated Behavior -- IV: Uniqueness Seeking in Perspective -- 10 Deindividuation: Loss of Uniqueness -- 11 Individuation: The Pursuit of Difference.

My Red Shirt and Me The red shirt incident begins with a rather ordinary red shirt. Not a brightly colored red shirt, not a dramatic cherry or firehouse red, more like a faded burgundy. But, for several days, my very iden­ tity was bound up in its redness. It was me, and I wore it with the pride a matador takes in his splendid cape, a hero in his medals of bravery, or a nun in her religious habit. I'll never forget the bound­ less joy I felt wearing that simple, pullover, short-sleeved red shirt in the hospital--or the rush of relief that I experienced when, at last, I decided to surrender it. However, we are getting ahead of our story, which starts a short time earlier with a most unfortunate accident. A light flurry of wet snow had begun to fall as the university limousine turned the corner on its way from the Bronx campus of New York University to the downtown campus. Although eight of us were packed into the car and had resigned ourselves to the usual boring faculty meeting awaiting us, somehow a spontaneous air of joviality was created.

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