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It’s All About Me (Or Is It Us?): The Narrative Antecedents of the Locus of Celebrity

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract For two decades, research on individual and organizational celebrity has flourished. However, the literature remains limited in several ways. First, despite recent gains regarding the antecedents of celebrity, current theory does not fully explain why celebrity resides at a specific locus (i.e., at the individual‐ and/or organizational level).
Laura D’Oria   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moralized Identities in and Around Organizations: An Identity Work Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we examine the literature on moralized identities – the range of identities that people construct for themselves that are underpinned by issues of morality. We problematize traditional theorizing by drawing on the identity work perspective to provide an explanatory framework that diverts attention away from a focus on what ...
Michael J. Gill, Andrew D. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Identity‐Based Motivation: Testing Assumptions of Ecological Validity, Individual Differences and Within‐Person Fluctuations

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction‐Objective We outline and test three key assumptions of identity‐based motivation theory. First, in everyday life, people draw both difficulty‐as‐importance and difficulty‐as‐impossibility inferences when tasks or goals feel hard to think about (ecological validity).
Alysia Burbidge, Daphna Oyserman
wiley   +1 more source

Life Narratives and the Ten Aspects of the Big Five Across Open‐Ended and Targeted Prompts

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Personality psychology seeks to understand individuals' dispositional traits and other components of personality including self‐defining life narratives. Past studies correlating traits and narrative themes have largely focused on the Big Five. Methods In the current study, two U.S. undergraduate samples (Sample 1, N = 219; Sample 2,
Edward Chou   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Narrating the Dark Night of the Soul: The Psychosocial Study of Low Point Stories

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Psychologists have long studied people's responses to adverse life events. Certain ways of telling a story of suffering, favored by a person's culture, may be more adaptive than others. The present study explores the culturally sanctioned script for how to tell the story of the lowest point in one's life.
Sarah C. Jennings   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using a Master Narrative Framework to Examine Conversations About Race and Ethnicity

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Systemic racism, reinforced by color‐evasive ideology, shapes the ways that emerging adults process and discuss race/ethnicity. In this preregistered and mixed methods study, we used a master narrative framework to examine narratives about race/ethnicity among U.S. emerging adult friend‐pairs.
Dulce W. Westberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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