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PhD Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, William B. Swann is a professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is primarily known for his work on identity, self and self-esteem, but has also done research on relationshipss, social cognition, group processes, accuracy in person perception and interpersonal expectancy effects. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Minnesota and undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College.

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A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains (2003) (6667)
Identity negotiation: where two roads meet. (1987) (1181)
Stalking the perfect measure of implicit self-esteem: the blind men and the elephant revisited? (2000) (1086)
Hypothesis-Testing Processes in Social Interaction (1978) (916)
From self-conceptions to self-worth: on the sources and structure of global self-esteem. (1989) (801)
Self-liking and self-competence as dimensions of global self-esteem: initial validation of a measure. (1995) (685)
Self-verification processes: How we sustain our self-conceptions (1981) (684)
Do people's self-views matter? Self-concept and self-esteem in everyday life. (2007) (673)
Why people self-verify. (1992) (666)
Behavioral confirmation in social interaction: From social perception to social reality. (1978) (609)
The cognitive-affective crossfire: when self-consistency confronts self-enhancement. (1987) (569)
Authenticity and positivity strivings in marriage and courtship. (1994) (524)
When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion. (2012) (518)
Identity fusion: the interplay of personal and social identities in extreme group behavior. (2009) (517)
A battle of wills: self-verification versus behavioral confirmation. (1984) (508)
Agreeable fancy or disagreeable truth? Reconciling self-enhancement and self-verification. (1989) (502)
Two-dimensional self-esteem: Theory and measurement (2001) (455)
Quest for accuracy in person perception: a matter of pragmatics. (1984) (448)
Self-verification: The search for coherence (2003) (447)
Finding Value in Diversity: Verification of Personal and Social Self-Views in Diverse Groups (2004) (436)
When our identities are mistaken: Reaffirming self-conceptions through social interaction. (1982) (422)
Allure of negative feedback: self-verification strivings among depressed persons. (1992) (392)
Acquiring Self-Knowledge: The Search for Feedback That Fits (1981) (355)
On the nature of identity fusion: insights into the construct and a new measure. (2011) (307)
When actions reflect attitudes: The politics of impression management (1976) (302)
Self-Enhancement Tendencies Among People With High Explicit Self-Esteem: The Moderating Role of Implicit Self-Esteem (2003) (279)
The fleeting gleam of praise: cognitive processes underlying behavioral reactions to self-relevant feedback. (1990) (252)
Do People Embrace Praise Even When They Feel Unworthy? A Review of Critical Tests of Self-Enhancement Versus Self-Verification (2010) (242)
Self-Traps: The Elusive Quest for Higher Self-Esteem (1996) (235)
What makes a group worth dying for? Identity fusion fosters perception of familial ties, promoting self-sacrifice. (2014) (222)
Implicit self-esteem: nature, measurement, and a new way forward. (2011) (222)
Self-verification in clinical depression: the desire for negative evaluation. (1996) (218)
When does introspection bear fruit? Self-reflection, self-insight, and interpersonal choices. (1993) (213)
Brothers in arms: Libyan revolutionaries bond like family (2014) (206)
Identity fusion and self-sacrifice: arousal as a catalyst of pro-group fighting, dying, and helping behavior. (2010) (206)
Should we create a niche or fall in line? Identity negotiation and small group effectiveness. (2000) (204)
The Trouble with Change: Self-Verification and Allegiance to the Self (1997) (202)
Sexism and stereotypes in modern society : the gender science of Janet Taylor Spence (1999) (201)
Embracing the Bitter “Truth”: Negative Self-Concepts and Marital Commitment (1992) (198)
Dying and Killing for One’s Group (2010) (198)
Confidence and accuracy in person perception: do we know what we think we know about our relationship partners? (1997) (186)
Who Wants Out When the Going Gets Good? Psychological Investment and Preference for Self-Verifying College Roommates (2002) (181)
Intimates as agents of social support: sources of consolation or despair? (1985) (180)
Initiating Play Activity of Children: The Moderating Influence of Verbal Cues on Intrinsic Motivation. (1977) (172)
Depression and the search for negative evaluations: more evidence of the role of self-verification strivings. (1992) (171)
Is More Fairness Always Preferred? Self-Esteem Moderates Reactions to Procedural Justice (2007) (170)
Change through paradox: using self-verification to alter beliefs. (1988) (140)
The self and identity negotiation (2005) (140)
The Search for Beauty and Truth: A Framework for Understanding Reactions to Evaluations (1995) (139)
Individualism-Collectivism and Global Self-Esteem (1996) (139)
Fostering Group Identification and Creativity in Diverse Groups: The Role of Individuation and Self-Verification (2003) (138)
On the genesis of confidence. (1998) (136)
Partner verification: restoring shattered images of our intimates. (1998) (135)
Identity negotiation in roommate relationships: the self as architect and consequence of social reality. (1994) (132)
Interpersonal chemistry through negativity: Bonding by sharing negative attitudes about others (2006) (129)
Identity Negotiation at Work (2009) (128)
Personality Psychology’s Comeback and Its Emerging Symbiosis With Social Psychology (2005) (125)
Rejected and Excluded Forevermore, but Even More Devoted (2011) (125)
Seeking “Truth,” Finding Despair: Some Unhappy Consequences of a Negative Self-Concept (1992) (122)
Identity Fusion (2015) (117)
Identity negotiation: A theory of self and social interaction (2008) (114)
Contemplating the ultimate sacrifice: identity fusion channels pro-group affect, cognition, and moral decision making. (2014) (104)
On Translating Beliefs Into Action: Theories of Ability and Their Application in an Instructional Setting (1980) (103)
Outcasts in a white-lie society: the enigmatic worlds of people with negative self-conceptions. (1992) (90)
On what it means to know someone: a matter of pragmatics. (2004) (90)
Self-Liking, Self-Competence, and the Quest for Self-Verification (1999) (87)
Different Partners, Different Selves: Strategic Verification of Circumscribed Identities (2002) (87)
The Juncture of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Knowledge: Self-Certainty and Interpersonal Congruence (1994) (86)
Can self-verification strivings fully transcend the self-other barrier? Seeking verification of ingroup identities. (2009) (84)
Curiosity and Control: On the Determinants of the Search for Social Knowledge (1981) (77)
Men Seek Social Standing, Women Seek Companionship (2013) (77)
Resilient identities : self-relationships and the construction of social reality (1999) (70)
Self-verification 360°: Illuminating the Light and Dark Sides (2009) (68)
When Terror Hits Home: Identity Fused Americans Who Saw Boston Bombing Victims as “Family” Provided Aid (2015) (67)
Where Leading Questions Can Lead: The Power of Conjecture in Social Interaction (1982) (66)
Blirtatiousness: cognitive, behavioral, and physiological consequences of rapid responding. (2001) (63)
Confirmatory Search Strategies in Social Interaction: How, When, Why, and With What Consequences (1987) (55)
Do people want to be flattered or understood? The cross-cultural universality of self-verification (2013) (55)
Dispelling negative expectancies: The impact of interaction goals and target characteristics on the expectancy confirmation process. (1988) (54)
Why ThreaTs Trigger CompensaTory reaCTions: The neeD for CoherenCe anD qUesT for self-verifiCaTion (2012) (54)
On “knowing your partner”: Dangerous illusions in the age of AIDS? (1995) (47)
The Dynamic Identity Fusion Index (2016) (46)
God or Country? Fusion With Judaism Predicts Desire for Retaliation Following Palestinian Stabbing Intifada (2017) (44)
The Dynamic Identity Fusion Index : A New Continuous Measure of Identity Fusion for Web-Based Questionnaires (2015) (43)
Identity Fusion, Extreme Pro‐Group Behavior, and the Path to Defusion (2015) (43)
Why never forgetting a face matters: visual imagery and social memory. (1982) (41)
Self-verification in relationships as an adaptive process (2013) (40)
Association of the serotonin transporter promoter region polymorphism with biased attention for negative word stimuli (2010) (40)
Caught in the Crossfire: Positivity and Self-Verification Strivings Among People with Low Self-Esteem (1993) (37)
Restoring Agency to the Human Actor (2017) (35)
Denial and the AIDS crisis: On wishing away the threat of AIDS. (1996) (35)
Sharing genes fosters identity fusion and altruism (2017) (34)
Self and Identity (2010) (32)
The precarious couple effect: verbally inhibited men + critical, disinhibited women = bad chemistry. (2003) (32)
My Group's Fate Is My Fate: Identity-Fused Americans and Spaniards Link Personal Life Quality to Outcome of 2008 Elections (2012) (29)
Striving for confirmation: The role of self-verification in depression. (1999) (29)
Do historic threats to the group diminish identity fusion and its correlates? (2017) (26)
The supermom trap: Do involved dads erode moms' self‐competence? (2010) (26)
Why people abandon groups: Degrading relational vs collective ties uniquely impacts identity fusion and identification (2019) (25)
Causal chunking: memory and inference in ongoing interaction. (1987) (25)
Self as Functional Fiction (2012) (24)
Yes, cavalier attitudes can have pernicious consequences. (2008) (24)
Understanding and preventing HIV risk behavior (1996) (23)
Fusion with the Cross-Gender Group Predicts Genital Sex Reassignment Surgery (2015) (23)
The truth about illusions: Authenticity and positivity in social relationships. (2002) (22)
Psychotherapy, self-concept change, and self-verification. (1991) (21)
Reasserting the Self: Blocking Self-verifying Behavior Triggers Compensatory Self-verification (2011) (20)
Policies for Diversity in Education (1991) (19)
When personal identities confirm versus conflict with group identities: Evidence from an intergroup paradigm (2010) (19)
The Cognitive-Affective Crossfire (1987) (19)
Deep Alignment with Country Shrinks the Moral Gap Between Conservatives and Liberals (2018) (17)
Finding value in diversity (2004) (16)
Censoring political opposition online: Who does it and why (2020) (15)
The Oneness Hypothesis (2018) (15)
Moral Vitalism (2015) (15)
Tribalism can corrupt: Why people denounce or protect immoral group members (2019) (15)
Capturing the Elusive 'Value in Diversity' Effect: Individuation, Self-Verification and Performance in Small Groups (2001) (14)
Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism (2019) (13)
Moral vitalism: Seeing good and evil as real, agentic forces (2015) (13)
The Benefits of Verifying Diverse Identities for Group Performance (2003) (13)
The Flip Side of the Reassurance-Seeking Coin: The Partner's Perspective (1999) (13)
Three Wishes for the World (with comment) (2013) (12)
Waning of Stereotypic Perceptions in Small Groups: Identity Negotiation and Erosion of Gender Expectations of Women (2003) (11)
The more prototypical the better? The allure of being seen as one sees oneself (2014) (11)
12. The role of uncertainty in self-evaluative processes: another look at the cognitive-affective crossfire (2010) (11)
Bullying in two English comprehensive schools (2013) (10)
The self. (1982) (10)
The Paradox of the Sincere Chameleon: Strategic Self-verification in Romantic Relationships (2001) (10)
PARTNER DEVALUATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS AMONG DEPRESSION-VULNERABLE WOMEN WITH LOW SELF-ESTEEM (2008) (9)
Ten-Item Personality Inventory (2012) (9)
A New Pathway to University Retention? Identity Fusion With University Predicts Retention Independently of Grades (2021) (9)
Tempting Today, Troubling Tomorrow: The Roots of the Precarious Couple Effect (2006) (9)
Why People Enter and Embrace Violent Groups (2021) (8)
Language abilities of ESN(s) pupils. (1976) (8)
Introduction to special issue of Self and Identity on identity fusion (2018) (8)
Including Pupils with Disabilities (1987) (8)
The Influence of Identity Fusion on Patriotic Consumption: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Korea and the U.S. (2014) (7)
How “Naive” Is the Naive Attributor? Discounting and Augmentation in Attitude Attribution (1987) (7)
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Self-Verification Motives (2008) (7)
Salience of Initial Ratings and Attitude Change in the "Forbidden Toy" Paradigm (1975) (6)
Shelter from the storm? Flawed reactions to stress in precarious couples (2007) (6)
You Just Don’t Get Us!: Positive, but Non-Verifying, Evaluations Foster Prejudice and Discrimination (2018) (5)
Difference and distinction (1992) (4)
Is Silence More Golden for Women than Men? Observers Derogate Effusive Women and their Quiet Partners (2007) (4)
Swimming serenely in a sea of words: Sexism, communication, and precarious couples (2011) (4)
Three Wishes for the World (2013) (4)
Perspectives and Research on the Concept of Race within the Framework of Multiracial Identity (2011) (4)
Asymmetries in Mutual Understanding: People With Low Status, Power, and Self-Esteem Understand Better Than They Are Understood (2020) (4)
Beliefs, Confidence and the Widows Ademoski: On Knowing What we Know about Others (1998) (4)
An Alternative system : a special imagination (1982) (3)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (1990) (3)
Dance With the One Who Brung Ya (1992) (3)
Is social interaction based on guile or honesty (2011) (2)
What's Positive About Self-Verification? (2009) (2)
Distance teaching draws closer. (2007) (2)
Preventing difficulties in learning (1987) (2)
Backlash: Marching Backwards Towards Selection (1991) (2)
Discussion on ‘Interactionism in personality and social psychology: An integrated approach to understanding the mind and behaviour’ by Reynolds, Turner, Branscombe, Mavor, Bizumic, and Subašić (2010) (2)
Identity Negotiation in Social Interaction : Past, present and future (2016) (2)
Restoring Honor by Slapping or Disowning the Daughter. (2022) (1)
Why True Believers Make the Ultimate Sacrifice: Sacred Values, Moral Convictions, or Identity Fusion? (2021) (1)
PERSONALITY AND DYADIC INTERACTION Identity Negotiation : Where Two Roads Meet (2004) (1)
Non-verbal communication (2018) (1)
The saboteur within (2020) (1)
Measurement invariance of the moral vitalism scale across 28 cultural groups (2020) (1)
Identity fusion “in the wild”: Moving toward or away from a general theory of identity fusion? (2018) (1)
Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations (2022) (1)
16. Identity Fusion: The Union of Personal and Social Selves (2018) (1)
Supplementary material from "Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism" (2019) (1)
Affected by HIV and AIDS: Cameos of children and young people (2013) (0)
36. Self-esteem (2009) (0)
Self-Verification Theory (2020) (0)
Honesty in Scientific Study (2015) (0)
ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION On the Genesis of Confidence (1998) (0)
Appealing against the System (2007) (0)
Curriculum content: sources, concepts and objectives (2018) (0)
Importance of Relationship Benefits Index (2016) (0)
Running head: NOT-SO-FREE SPEECH: SUPPORT FOR VIOLENT PROTESTS ACROSS THE POLITICAL DIVIDE 1 Not-so-free speech: Support for violent protests across the political divide (2020) (0)
Volume 9, 2014, List of Reviewers (2014) (0)
Using language curriculum packages (2018) (0)
Hardening the hierarchies: The National Curriculum as a system of classification (2013) (0)
Lay Beliefs Measure (2016) (0)
The Cognitive-Affective Cross-Fire in Negative Self-Concept Individuals (1983) (0)
Concepts of development (1979) (0)
Seeking "Truth," Finding Despair: Some (2016) (0)
Debbie: A Curriculum for a Partially Sighted Girl (2003) (0)
Responses to Ingroup Moral Transgressions (2018) (0)
Behind the Blackpill: Self-Verification and Identity Fusion Predict Endorsement of Violence Against Women Among Self-Identified Incels. (2023) (0)
Aims and the curriculum (2018) (0)
Returning to the basics: A curriculum at Harperbury Hospital School (2013) (0)
Dynamic Identity Fusion Index (2017) (0)
Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations (2022) (0)
Becoming a reflective teacher (2013) (0)
Using questions in the classroom (2018) (0)
Fusion with the Cross-Gender Group Predicts Genital Sex Reassignment Surgery (2015) (0)
Defining teaching objectives: a study of six teachers (2018) (0)
Moral Vitalism Scale (2016) (0)
Erratum to: Fusion with the Cross-Gender Group Predicts Genital Sex Reassignment Surgery (2015) (0)
Supplemental Materials Bastian, Vauclair, et al., (2019) Explaining illness with evil: Pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb. 2019-1576 from Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism (2019) (0)
Shelter from the storm? Experimental evidence that (some) romantic partners buffer stress: (633942013-476) (2005) (0)
Erratum to: Fusion with the Cross-Gender Group Predicts Genital Sex Reassignment Surgery (2015) (0)
Lassies of Leith talk about bother (2013) (0)
Concepts of delopment (1979) (0)
Culturally Responsive Leadership Practices that Enable Success of Samoan Boys in a Catholic School (2018) (0)
Finding a voice (2013) (0)
Differentiated selves can surely be good for the group, but let's get clear about why (2016) (0)
Self as Functional Fiction Swann and Buhrmester self as functional fiction (2012) (0)
Can identity fusion foster social harmony? Strongly fused individuals embrace familiar outgroup members unless threatened (2023) (0)
Conductive education: Contrasting perspectives (2013) (0)
Research and progress in special eudcation (1983) (0)
Integration? Look Twice at Statistics (2007) (0)
Mother-child interaction (1981) (0)
Honesty in scientii c study (2015) (0)

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