Download or read book Building, Defending, and Regulating the Self written by Abraham Tesser and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume pulls together research on several aspects of the self. One set of chapters deals with the importance of building a self based on authenticity and "Who I really am."; a second group deals with the ways in which we defend views of the self as positive and powerful; a third group is concerned with multiple aspects of self regulation. Each of the chapters is a well-written, non-technical description of an important, currently active research program.