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Direct definition
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Communication that explicitly tells us who we are by labeling us and our behaviors
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Identity scripts
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Rules for how we are supposed to live and who we are supposed to be
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Attachment styles
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Patterns of parenting that teach us who we and others are and how to relate to others
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Social comparison
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Involves comparing ourselves with others to form judgments of our own talents, attractiveness, abilities, leadership skills, and so forth
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Ego boundaries
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Define where the self stops and the rest of the world begins
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Particular others
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The viewpoints of specific people who are significant to us
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Reflected appraisal
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Seeing ourselves through other's eyes
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Perspective of the generalized other
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The collection of rules, roles, and attitudes endorsed by the whole social community in which we live
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Self-sabotage
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Crippling self-talk; telling ourselves we are no good, we'll never learn something, there's no point in trying
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