Ego
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Effects of different viewing perspectives on somatosensory activations during observation of touch.

30 Aug 2009 Previous studies showed that neurons in the monkey premotor cortex became active when performing a particular action and also when observing the same action performed by others. These findings suggest a mirror system for action observation. ... Read more...

Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration.

30 Aug 2009 Five studies tested the hypothesis that self-regulatory failure is an important predictor of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Study 1 participants were far more likely to experience a violent impulse during conflictual interaction with ... Read more...

Meta-analytic moderators of experimental exposure to media portrayals of women on female appearance satisfaction: Social comparisons as automatic processes.

26 Aug 2009 Experimental exposure to idealized media portrayals of women is thought to induce social comparisons in female viewers and thereby to be generally detrimental to female viewers' satisfaction with their own appearance. Through meta-analysis, the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Ego'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• "Psychoanalysis and the unconscious" and D.W. Winnicott's transitional and related phenomena. 29 Sep 2009
• Effects of different viewing perspectives on somatosensory activations during observation of touch. 30 Aug 2009
• Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration. 30 Aug 2009
• Meta-analytic moderators of experimental exposure to media portrayals of women on female appearance satisfaction: Social comparisons as automatic processes. 26 Aug 2009
• Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• Being seen or being watched? A psychoanalytic perspective on body dysmorphia. 30 Jul 2009
• Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex. 30 Jul 2009
• On love, hate and knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• A cultural task analysis of implicit independence: comparing North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. 30 Jul 2009
• Distancing from experienced self: how global-versus-local perception affects estimation of psychological distance. 30 Jul 2009
• The concept of ego threat in social and personality psychology: is ego threat a viable scientific construct? 29 Jul 2009
• The metamorphosis of Narcissus: communal activation promotes relationship commitment among narcissists. 19 Jul 2009
• Affect education and the development of the interpersonal ego in modern group psychoanalysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Egocentric pattern projection: how implicit personality theories recapitulate the geography of the self. 29 Jun 2009
• [Sense of personal identity from a psychoanalytical perspective] 30 May 2009
• Are Urban and Colman really in opposition over Fordham's model of the self? 30 May 2009
• The 'body-container': a new perspective on the 'body-ego'. 30 May 2009
• An examination of the construct validity of the Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale. 29 Apr 2009
• Changes in implicit and explicit measures of ego functions and distress among two eating disorder subgroups: outcomes of integrative treatment. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Ego'

Definition: The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.

Descriptor UI: D004532

Alternative terms: Ego; Egos; Self;

Related Mesh Headings: Self Psychology;

Tree Number: F01.752.747.189; F02.739.794.206;

Online Note: use EGO to search SELF 1969-75 & SELF CONCEPT 1966-68

History Note: 68; SELF was heading 1965-68, was see under PERSONALITY 1963-64

Technical Notes: no qualif; egocentrism: index DEFENSE MECHANISMS