The Self

Constantine Sedikides is Professor of Psychology at the University of Southampton, UK. He received his doctorate from the Ohio State University and has held faculty appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published prolifically (and co-edited special books) in the areas of self and identity, affect and motivation, close relationships, intergroup perception, and person perception.Steven J. Spencer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Social Psychology Division at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his doctorate from the University of Michigan and has held faculty positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Hope College. He maintains an active research program that investigates self-image maintenance processes, motivated social perception, and stereotyping. He has served his discipline as an associate editor at the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and as a consulting editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Self and Identity. He is currently the secretary and chair-elect of the executive committee of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.