Procrastination is a prevalent and pernicious form of self-regulatory failure that is not entirely
understood. Hence, the relevant conceptual, theoretical, and empirical work is reviewed …

Presents a self-presentation approach to the study of social anxiety that proposes that social
anxiety arises when individuals are motivated to make a preferred impression on real or …

Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement, but this
impact can be either positive or negative. Its power is frequently mentioned in articles about …

Throughout the past few thousand years, historical accounts, philosophical treatises, and
works of fiction and poetry have often depicted humans as having a need to perceive …

Publisher Summary This chapter deals with terror management theory that attempts to
contribute to the understanding of social behavior by focusing on the essential being and …

Examination stress and test anxiety are pervasive problems in modern society. As the
information age continues to evolve, test scores will become even more important than they …

Research showing that activation of negative stereotypes can impair the performance of
stigmatized individuals on a wide variety of tasks has proliferated. However, a complete …

This book is about the ways which human behavior is affected concerns with people may be
doing, their public impressions they typically prefer that No matter what else other people …

In this investigation, evaluations of self in relation to others were examined by means of
asking subjects to rate the degree to which various trait adjectives characterized themselves …

In this article we discuss the strategies that people may use to cope with situations that are
risky in that they present the possibility for failure and potential threats to self-esteem …