Roy Baumeister
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Roy Baumeister is Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He is a social psychologist that is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, and aggression. He has authored nearly 300 publications and has written or co-written 20 books including his most recent work, The Cultural Animal.[1] He earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and his M.A. from Duke University. He returned to Princeton University with his mentor Edward E. Jones and earned his Ph.D. in 1978. He is a fellow of both the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Baumeister was named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2003.
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Professor Baumeister has conducted research on the self, including various concepts related to how people perceive, act, and relate to their selves. Baumeister wrote a chapter titled, "The Self" in The Handbook of social Psychology, and reviewed the research on the self-esteem in which he claimed that the importance of self-esteem is overrated. He also established that various self-destructive actions are a strategy to escape the self.
The need to belong is a highly cited work form 1995, written with Mark Leary, showing that humans have a natural need to belong with others. Later, Baumeister published evidence that the way people look for belongingness differs between men and women. Women prefer a few close and intimate relationships, whereas men prefer many but shallower connections. Men realize more of their need to belong via a group of people, or a cause, rather than in close interpersonal relations.
Baumeister also researched self-regulation or self-control). He coined the term Ego depletion about the finding that humans ability to self-regulate is limited and after using it there is less ability (or energy) to self-regulate. Baumeister also edited two academic books on self-regulation: "Losing Control" and "Handbook of self-regulation"
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- ^ Baumeister, R. (2005). The cultural animal. New York: Oxford University Press.
