Two of the patients who had a presentation of self-harming behavior showed a reduction in this risk.
Friendster offers a mix of architecture-changing tools and technologies: e-mail, a profile (which offers a persistent presentation of self) and a coarse representation of a social network.
Capstone Dance Project: The Capstone Project gives students the opportunity to pursue independent, innovative, and interdisciplinary research that culminates with a presentation of a self-choreographed recital.
The problem is that, more often than not, the applicant is expected to put forward a confident presentation of self that is more like an advertisement, a smooth civic-minded con job, circumventing the essay's gift for candid, robust self-doubt.
"I'd have to say knowledge of politics, communication and mediation skills, and a positive presentation of self all are necessary for academic success," says Weck. Okkema concurs.
The researchers said the analysis could "offer a straightforward and objective measure of an otherwise elusive feature of a candidate's presentation of self, which predicts the candidate's relative social status and the popular vote".
With this in mind, it's almost impossible to remember a more authentic presentation of self than Cass.
One thing he did bring home was a copy of a book called The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, by Erving Goffman, which she found to be "the most valuable book a novelist could read.
Social scientists call it "impression management" and attribute much of their understanding of the process to the sociologist Erving Goffman, who in a 1959 book, "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life," likened human interactions to a theatrical performance.
