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Also Known As	self-awareness • self-consciousness

Topics

Personal identity ego death Gender role self-actualization gender identity negative identity formation prosopon identity crisis ethnic identity self-esteem introvert and extravert personality disorder temperament humour psychological development five-factor model of personality hubris id superego libido

Key People

Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor

Canadian philosopher

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Gordon Allport

American psychologist