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 “To enhance or protect the self?: The complex role of explicit and implicit self-esteem,” 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.

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