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Erik Erikson’s Identity Crisis: Who Am I?

2014

Matt discusses how we form our identity and what that means for our success as an adult. You don’t want to miss this one!

07:34 min

The Second Identity Crisis: How to Deal in a Smart Way with a New Phase of Life

One of Erikson’s most important contributions was to describe this as a psychosocial phenomenon—an interaction between someone’s sense of who he or she is as a person and society’s recognition of that person as an individual.

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Prudy Gourguechon
2019
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Are You Having an Identity Crisis?

Here are four key ways to identify your identity.

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Susan Krauss Whitbourne
2012
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The Impact of Identity: The Power of Knowing Who You Are

The world is rapidly changing and our beliefs are being challenged. Many of us are uncomfortable with the political, religious, and social changes taking place. This book offers a new approach to establishing a clear, resilient identity and enjoying a more positive, meaningful life.

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Irina Nevzlin
2025
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FindCenter Quotes ImageHow could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

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Steven Johnson
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Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, And Want

Winner of the 2015 Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) Why are we sometimes blind to the minds of others, treating them like objects or animals instead? Why do we talk to our cars, or the stars, as if there is a mind that...

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Nicholas Epley
2015
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Why We’re Sometimes Kind Without Reason

Our brains are constantly, subtly being primed in fascinating ways by our physical surroundings.

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Charles Montgomery
2013
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What Loneliness Does to the Human Body

The bodies of lonely people are markedly different from the bodies of non-lonely people.

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Ashley Fetters
2018
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The 9 Major Research Areas in Social Psychology

Here are just a few of the major areas of interest within social psychology.

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Kendra Cherry
2020
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How Scammers Like Anna Delvey and the Tinder Swindler Exploit a Core Feature of Human Nature

Research shows that people tend to default to trusting others over distrusting them, believing them over doubting them and going along with someone’s self-presentation rather than embarrassing them by calling them out.

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Vanessa Bohns
2022
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You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Powers of Persuasion, and Why It Matters

If you’ve ever felt ineffective, invisible, or inarticulate, chances are you weren’t actually any of those things. Those feelings may instead have been the result of a lack of awareness we all seem to have for how our words, actions, and even our mere presence affect other people.

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Vanessa Bohns
2021
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Identity Shifts