PSYO 3280 Lecture 19: Lecture 19 Oct. 23

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 3280
• Professor: Tim Jukes

Document Summary

Possible selves: individuals" ideas (ideal) of: what they might become, what they would like to become, and. You know that what you would like to become may be out of reality for you. This can drive you: what they are afraid of becoming. Also motivating because you will do your best to avoid this. 1: evaluative and interpretive context for current view of self. Possible selves are incentive and constructive (individualized) but also socially determined and constrained (p. 954) Possible selves are incentives for future behaviour (p. 955)