In Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life, Professor Leary brings you to the forefront of recent studies in self-presentation. After more than 40 years of experience in psychology and neuroscience-and with wry humor and a talent for distilling difficult concepts into manageable parts- he makes this fascinating topic accessible to audiences everywhere. Step up to a thought-provoking journey into the workings of the human social mind filled with self-discovery and insights into the other people in your life.
Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life
Examine the tactics we use, both positive and negative, to manage other people's impressions and to achieve our goals, in this illuminating course taught by a professor of psychology.
Rated 2 out of
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Brunoez from
Swing and a Miss
I have very high regard for Dr. Mark Leary. His previous TGC offerings, "Investigations Into Human Personality" and "Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior" are 5-star offerings all the way both in terms of content and presentation. Unfortunately, "Your Public Persona" does not follow this tradition of excellence. Rather than delving into the nitty gritty details of how we create our public persona via both verbal and non-verbal content, Dr. Leary maintains a "meta" view of the topic throughout the course. The end result is that nothing specific is learned about how to manage your own public persona. For any learners who do wish to learn the practical aspects of impression management, another TGC course by Vanessa Van Edwards, "The Power of Body Language", is infinitely more helpful. The only drawback of Ms. Edwards' course is the length--15 1/2 hours. My wish would be for TGC to bring Ms. Edwards back into the studio to create a much shorter version of her course.
Date published: 2023-08-16
Rated 1 out of
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libai from
No science or measuring. Things everyone knows
i did a couple of lectures one year ago, and it was the most disappointing wondrium course that I have taken. I expected a bunch of strategies for self presentation and persuasion, and then data comparing their effectiveness in different settings. I don't remember any data, just a bunch of things that people can do to boost their persona, with no data to understand how or when they work and to what extent... so, pretty much the kind of knowledge that i could get from my aunt or my mother... If the lecturer has any great science backing the course he failed to show it up in the first two lectures, and completely lost my interest. He failed to move my curiosity, and i am still waiting for a course that can give me data on how personas are perceived and how can i boost mine in social media，but please, DATA! i already see strategies everyday on social media, i don't need to review them, i need to know their limits, and which works best for what. I want more science for this subject, all but the science i can learn by myself just watching social media platforms. I felt such a sense of waste, that I have taken trouble to review it a year later.
Date published: 2023-02-25
Rated 5 out of
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Jirgis007 from
Brilliant presentation, worth my time
This is a course where there is no clear prescription for what to do, if that is what you are looking for, then you will be disappointed.
This is a thinking course, looking deep into yourself and then learning about yourself and knowing how much deception is going on a daily basis and then deciding what you going to do about it, if anything.
A great course. Thank you
Date published: 2022-11-17
Rated 3 out of
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JaLynn from
I have watch/listened to a variety of courses since the beginning of the year. Actually one course right after another has been my viewing pattern.
The professor for this course used his hands constantly in every lecture which was annoying. It certainly was not the first course I have seen this happen.
Unfortunately I did not find this course full of new information that I did not already know. Much of the info one gains just through life experience. Professor presented info well except for hand use. I just did not find the info all that new or helpful.
Date published: 2022-08-29
Rated 3 out of
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2022 from
OK to follow but needed more real interaction
As many have already posted, the content was OK and generally easy to follow. It was NOT a self-help, wished it was, but presented like an introductory college course lecture with summaries of the lecturer's works/theories that gave a variety of topics/ideas to think about. Thought it was worth what I paid for, but I felt like I paid more than what I actually learned from it. I would watch again, though I would NOT watch it frequently, but OCCASIONALLY as a refresher. I watched with subtitles that generally worked well. Some improvements could have been that the visuals overall were slow and bland (except the image of the guy with the colored hair), repetitive, and video often had too much focus on the lecturer gesturing frequently. Lecturer did everything he could to seem engaging and hearing his studies WERE provoking, but agree with others this was easy to fall asleep to. There were times you wished more people were overall involved, this lacked some good interviewing or back and forth among something real. Good to get you thinking/discussing, good if you are bored, good for introduction. Avoid if you want details or self help or get bored easily.
Date published: 2022-04-23
Rated 5 out of
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Kelli295 from
Good lecture
I am listening to this and it has some great info.
Date published: 2022-03-28
Rated 5 out of
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New Geezer from
Valuable and a Nice Break from Heavier Subjects
The course caused me to think more about my public persona, including with other family members, not just the public. Very easy to listen to. Provides a nice break to courses on heavier academic subjects.
Date published: 2021-07-01
Rated 1 out of
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SKR 99 from
Experiential Common Sense - Nothing new
If you have lived any length of time, you could pass along the very same information.
The clothes you wear matters and must fit the situation. Any individual over 5 years old knows this. The language you use matters. Some "out of place" appearance is in its own way deliberate rebellion. Young people know this (as do their parents and teachers) before they reach 6th grade. I was acutely disappointed.
I stayed with it until I realized it was not going deeper or becoming more useful.
Date published: 2021-06-26
Overview
About
Professor Mark Leary is Garonzik Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, where he heads the program in Social Psychology and is faculty director of the Duke Interdisciplinary Initiative in Social Psychology. He earned his bachelor's degree in Psychology from West Virginia Wesleyan College and his master's and doctoral degrees in Social Psychology from the University of Florida. He has taught previously at Denison University, The University of Texas at Austin, and Wake Forest University, where he served as department chair. Professor Leary has published 12 books and more than 200 scholarly chapters and articles on topics dealing with social motivation and emotion and the negative effects of excessive egotism and self-focus. He has been particularly interested in the ways in which people's emotions, behaviors, and self-views are influenced by their concerns with other people's perceptions and evaluations of them. Professor Leary's books include Social Anxiety; Self-Presentation: Impression Management and Interpersonal Behavior; The Curse of the Self: Self-Awareness, Egotism, and the Quality of Human Life; Handbook of Self and Identity; and Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods. Based on his scholarly contributions, the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin designated him among the top 40 social and personality psychologists in the world with the greatest impact. In 2010, he received the Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. In addition, he was the founding editor of the journal Self and Identity and is currently the editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Trailer
01: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life
32 min
02: Tactics for Managing Impressions
32 min
03: Fitting In and Playing Roles
33 min
04: Playing to the Audience’s Values
33 min
05: When Undesirable Personas Are Deliberate
34 min
06: Your Public Persona and Your Self-Image
33 min
07: Self-Presentation in Close Relationships
33 min
08: Managing Your Image at Work
33 min
09: Social Anxiety and Self-Presentation
32 min
10: Self-Presentation Dilemmas and Disasters
34 min
11: The Dangers of Self-Presentation
29 min
12: Behind the Mask: Who Are You Really?
35 min
