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Is there a need for a self-concept in psychology? Almost from the beginning, the field has been divided on this question. From a behavioristic viewpoint, the self-concept has an aura of mysticism about it, appearing not far removed from the concept of a soul. One can neither see a self-concept, nor touch it, and no one has succeeded as yet in adequately defining it as a hypothetical construct. Definitions that are offered tend to lack meaningful referents or to be circular. Thus, the self has been defined in terms of the I or the me, or both, or as the individuals reactions to himself. Some authors, apparently having despaired of providing an adequate definition, dispense with the matter by an appeal to common sense and by asserting that everyone knows he has a self as
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Seymour Epstein (Mon,) studied this question.
synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1067b128c2d29469fe7473 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/h0034679
Seymour Epstein
United States Department of the Army
American Psychologist
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