(N. 16 mai 1953 Cleveland, Ohio, Statele Unite) Este un reputat specialist experimental în psihologia socială, profesor de psihologie la Universitatea de Stat din Florida, cunoscut pentru publicațiile sale, care abordează teme cu privire la dezvoltarea personală, respingerea socială, apartenență, sexualitate, auto-control, stima de sine, comportamente autodistructive, motivare, agresivitate, conștiința, și liberul arbitru. Titluri publicate: •Your Own Worst Enemy: Understanding the Paradox of Self-Defeating Behavior •Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty •Social Psychology and Human Nature •Losing Control: How and Why People Fail at Self-Regulation •The Social Dimension of Sex •Breaking Hearts: The Two Sides of Unrequited Love. New York: Guilford Press, 1994. Masochism and the Self •Identity: Cultural Change and the Struggle for Self •Escaping the Self: Alcoholism, Spirituality, Masochism, and Other Flights from the Burden of Selfhood •Meanings of Life. New York: Guilford Press, 1992. •The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life •Self in Social Psychology: Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology) •Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (2 Volume Set) •Social Psychology and Human Sexuality: Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology) •Self-Esteem: The Puzzle of Low Self-Regard (The Plenum Series in Social/Clinical Psychology) (Hardcover) •Public Self and Private Self (Springer Series in Social Psychology) •Handbook of Self-Regulation, Second Edition: Research, Theory, and Applications. New York: Guilford Press, 2010 •Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? •Advanced Social Psychology: The State of the Science.
