by
Raymond L. Higgins, C.R. Snyder, Steven Berglas
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The concept of self-handicapping can be legitimately anchored in a vari ety of intellectual contexts, some old and some newer. As this volume reminds us, Alfred Adler was perhaps the first to articulate the signifi cance of various self-defeating claims and gestures for protecting the self concept....