The totalitarian ego
Fabrication and revision of personal history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8718525 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony G Greenwald (0000-0001-6865-8552, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 603-618 |
| Publication date | 1980-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0003-066x.35.7.603 |
| OpenAlex | W2072987943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 550 |
| References cited | 8 |
Id, ego and super-ego · Psychoanalysis · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social and Cultural Studies · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy · Social Psychology
Self-concept clarity and self-esteem
Commitment and Behavior Change
Self-defeating behavior patterns among normal individuals
Voicing the self
Social cognition and object relations
Psychopathology and early experience
Is memory schematic
The actor-observer asymmetry in attribution
Models of the self
Hindsight
Illusion and well-being
Asymmetrical effects of positive and negative events
Excuses
Motivational factors in decision theories
Psychosocial correlates of heterosexual condom use
The case for motivated reasoning
"The "self digest
Identity negotiation
Me as good and me as bad
How the self became a problem
Personal Theories about the Life-Span Development of One’s Self in Autobiographical Self-Presentations of Adults
Developing a Life Story
Developing Moral Agency through Narrative
Choosing Our Reality
The Psychology of Change
Defining Lives
The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing
The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.
Disenchantment with Democracy
Implicit social cognition
Biased Press or Biased Public? Attitudes Toward Media Coverage of Social Groups
Self‐Regulatory Perspectives on Personality
History of Social Psychology
Cultural Psychology
Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Situated Optimism
Research Findings Practitioners Resist
System Justification Theory
Identity, Self-Concept, and Self-Esteem
The Quest for Self-Insight
Psychological Defense
Natural Security
Heuristics and Biases
Relation of implicit theories to the construction of personal histories.
On the accuracy of personality judgment
Norm theory
Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?
The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning.
Cultural differences in optimism, pessimism, and coping
The weighing of evidence and the determinants of confidence
Bias in judgment
Extensional versus intuitive reasoning
A New Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control
Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression
Effects on Impression Management on Performance Ratings
Memory and the self☆
Current Issues in Attribution Theory and Research
A life-span theory of control.
The Dynamic Self-Concept
Intergroup relations
Individual differences in reasoning
Clinical Versus Actuarial Judgment
Individual differences in rational thought.
Under what conditions does theory obstruct research progress?
Support theory
The hot hand in basketball
Self-Efficacy and Academic Motivation
The nature and function of self-esteem
Exploring Causes of the Self‐serving Bias
Sensory–perceptual episodic memory and its context
Framing Inequity Safely
Affective Forecasting
The Life Story Schema
Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death
Developing the Psychological Capital of Resiliency
Threat and Defense
Terror Management Theory of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews
The Multiple Self-Aspects Framework
Self-Confidence and Personal Motivation
A Collective Fear of the Collective
A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions †
The Role of Self-Interest in Social and Political Attitudes
A Cognitive Ecological Model of Women'S Response to Male Sexual Coercion in Dating
The Dishonesty of Honest People
A Better World or a Shattered Vision? Changes in Life Perspectives Following Victimization
Humility
The Fading affect bias
Interpersonal Functions of the Self-Esteem Motive
Academics or entrepreneurs? Investigating role identity modification of university scientists involved in commercialization activity
Contingencies of self-worth.
Optimistic Biases About Personal Risks
Organizational identity orientation
The identity function of autobiographical memory
Striving for the Moral Self
Unable to resist temptation
Beyond Self-Presentation
Social functionalist frameworks for judgment and choice
Five kinds of self‐knowledge
Social Ostracism
Representativeness Revisited
Judgment under Uncertainty
The structure of scientific revolutions
Explorations in cognitive dissonance.
Ego-involvement, discrepancy, source credibility, and attitude change
The illusion of control
The self-concept revisited
Involvement, discrepancy, and change
Involvement and communication discrepancy as determinants of opinion conformity
| Unique citing works | 550 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,7 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 526 |