Julie Longua Peterson is co-author on book chapter in the Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection
Julie Longua Peterson, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, has a recently co-authored a book chapter on the role of explicit and implicit self-esteem and self-enhancement. The chapter, entitled 鈥淭o enhance or protect the self?: The complex role of explicit and implicit self-esteem,鈥 appears in The Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-protection. The chapter examines how differences in explicit (conscious, relatively controlled) and implicit (presumably unconscious, relatively uncontrolled) self-esteem predict tendencies to enhance or protect the self, and how these tendencies influence the regulation of behaviors in relationships with significant others. Citation: DeHart, T., Longua, J.E., Smith, J. (2011). To enhance or protect the self?: The complex role of explicit and implicit self-esteem. In Mark Alicke and Constantine Sedikides (Eds.), The Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-protection. New York: Guilford Press.