The identity-effort connection

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The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations.

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Childhood and Society

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The Achieving Society

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Beyond boredom and anxiety

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Self-Perception Theory

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Attribution: Perceiving the Causes of Behavior

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A theory of objective self awareness

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Introduction: Motivation

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New directions in attribution research

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Motives in fantasy, action, and society

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Attribution in social interaction.

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Introduction/motivation

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Motivation and Achievement

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Perceiving the causes of success and failure.

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Symbolic Self Completion

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Identity: Cultural Change and the Struggle for Self

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Socialization and Society.

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Self-related Cognitions in Anxiety and Motivation

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Das Behalten erledigter und unerledigter Handlungen

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Untersuchungen zur Handlungs- und Affektpsychologie

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Status, Status Types, and Status Interrelations

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Self‐focused attention and self‐report validity¹

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Measures of Achieving Tendency

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Self-esteem maintenance in family dynamics.

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Conceptual Universale in Interpersonal Language

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Some characteristics of achievement motivation.

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Self-symbolizing and the neglect of others' perspectives.

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Conceptions of ability and related affects in task involvement and ego involvement.

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The Professionalization of Medical Students: Developing Competence And A Cloak of Competence*

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Striving for Specific Identities: The Social Reality of Self-Symbolizing

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Task-Orientation vs. Ego-Orientation in Learning and Retention

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The influence of ego-involvement on confidence.

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THE NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT AS MEASURED BY GRAPHIC EXPRESSION

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The Influence of Valence on Substitution

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Risk preference in choosing an evaluator: An extension of Atkinson's achievement-motivation model

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Ex-Nuns: A Study of Emergent Role Passage

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Status Inconsistency: Its Objective and Subjective Components

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Ex-Nuns: A Study of Emergent Role Passage

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