The Psychology of Self-Esteem

see, across the river or just a few blocks away, people who lead a totally different kind of life, and boys of his own age who, ...

To the extent that a man defaults on the responsibility of thinking, he is, in significant measure, "the product of his environm ...

power of self-consciousness. This basic choice—given the context of his knowledge and of the existential possibilities confronti ...

moment or situation, his method of mental functioning is the inevitable product of an endless chain of antecedent factors; he ha ...

know that their theory is true; they can only report that they feel helpless to believe otherwise. Nor can they claim that their ...

could claim objectivity or truth—including the idea that man is a machine. Those who propound determinism must either assert tha ...

Only because man is a being of volitional consciousness, only because he is free to initiate and sustain a reasoning process, is ...

the same temperature, it burns. The differences in their actions are caused by differences in their properties. If an automobile ...

is not causeless, it is caused by a man. The actions possible to an entity are determined by the entity that acts—and the nature ...

example) a disastrous legacy remained: the insidiously persistent notion that every action, including every action of man, is on ...

wholly passive. It is entirely incompatible with the fact of man as a cognitive self-regulator. But it is not the fact of cognit ...

This is a matter of demonstrable psychological law (Chapter Seven). Or again, if a man forms certain values—as a result of his t ...

Chapter Five— 5. Emotions Emotions and Values Throughout the preceding discussion, I have stressed that his ability to reason is ...

"Value" is a concept pertaining to a relation—the relation of some aspect of reality to man (or to some other living entity). If ...

chaos, the sense of being out of control and unable to assimilate the data entering his consciousness. To experience a state of ...

of the fact that his is a conceptual form of consciousness. His values are still the product of his mind, but of a mind set in r ...

awareness); and it operates, in effect, as an electronic computer, performing super-rapid integrations of sensory and ideational ...

The sequence of psychological events is: from perception to evaluation to emotional response. On the level of immediate awarenes ...

Sometimes, one responds emotionally to things of which one is not aware. For example, one may meet a person for whom one feels ...

one feels in regard to any fact or issue is irrelevant to the question of whether one's judgment is true or false. It is not by ...