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›› 2002, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (04): 425-432.

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A SURVEY ON THE THEORY OF SELF-PRESENTATION

Shi Qingmin, Zhao Hai (Department of Psychology,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875)   

  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2002-08-25 Published:2002-08-25

Abstract: Self-presentation is the process in which people control their images to other people and it is the main fact of interacting. In 1959, Eving Goffman, a famous sociologist, developed the conception of self-presentation. Many researchers were interested in this field. Most social interactions can be analyzed in terms of self-presentation, because only a few behavioral acts can be considered as not having any self-presentational intentions. These researches are dominant by self-presentational styles and classifications, determinant of self-presentation and self -presentational strategies and so on. Researches on self-presentation will have considerable significance for enriching the theories of social psychology and propelling relative researches.

Key words: self-presentation, self-presentational styles and classifications, self-presentational strategy