First published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers in 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The impact of comprehension goals on the ebb and flow of stereotype activation during interaction / Ziva Kunda ... [et al.] -- 2. Self-image maintenance goals and sociocultural norms in motivated social perception / Steven Fein ... [et al.] -- 3. The zealous self-affirmer : how and why the self lurks so pervasively behind social judgment / David Dunning -- 4. Defensive zeal : compensatory conviction about attitudes, values, goals, groups, and self-definition in the face of personal uncertainty / Ian McGregor -- 5. On the nature of implicit self-esteem : the case of the name letter effect / Sander L. Koole and Brett W. Pelham -- 6. "I love me ... I love me not" : implicit self-esteem, explicit self-esteem, and defensiveness / Christian H. Jordan, Steven J. Spencer, and Mark P. Zanna -- 7. What does the self want? Contingencies of self-worth and goals / Connie Wolfe and Jennifer Crocker -- 8. An expectancy-value approach to self-esteem / Mark W. Baldwin and Jodene R. Baccus -- 9. The self, online / John A. Bargh, Grainne M. Fitzsimons, and Katelyn Y.A. McKenna -- 10. Ancestral environments and motivated social perception : goal-like blasts from the evolutionary past / Mark Schaller -- 11. Five core social motives, plus or minus five / Susan T. Fiske -- 12. Goal systems theory : integrating the cognitive and motivational aspects of self-regulation / James Y. Shah, Arie W. Kruglansk, and Ron Friedman -- 13. Counterfactual thinking and regulatory focus / Giner L. Pennington and Neal J. Roese -- 14. Motivated perception and the war look : current perspectives and future directions / Richard M. Sorrentino.

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