This article explores artistic innovations in Kūṭiyāṭṭam theater through the lens of critique developed Naṭāṅkuśa—a polemical treatise composed, perhaps, 15th century Kerala. The focus is on Naṭāṅkuśa’s fierce disapproval performance multiple roles by an actor dressed as one and same character—for example, switching from role Hanumān to that Rāma, while still Hanumān’s costume make-up. author N...

This article is focused on the growing empirical emphasis on connections between narrative and self-development. The authors propose a process model of self-development in which storytelling is at the heart of both stability and change in the self. Specifically, we focus on how situated stories help develop and maintain the self with reciprocal impacts on enduring aspects of self, specifically ...

The idea that the self is temporal and that the future-oriented components of the self are critical to understanding well-being can be traced to William James (1890/1950), who proposed that the selves we strive to become focus motivational attention, guide behavior, and are an important source of positive selfregard. James proposed that the future, as represented by one’s self-relevant goals fo...

This paper reports on a project in the North of England that looks at college-to-university decision-making processes non-traditional students through conceptual lens ‘Possible Selves’, as initially developed by Markus and Nurius (1986) applied to higher education Harrison (2018), Henderson (2019) others. Our data involves in-depth interviews with young people, college staff responsible for adv...

People consider the mental states of other people to understand their actions. We evaluated whether such perspective taking is culture dependent. People in collectivistic cultures (e.g., China) are said to have interdependent selves, whereas people in individualistic cultures (e.g., the United States) are said to have independent selves. To evaluate the effect of culture, we asked Chinese and A...

This study examined the relations of the salience and elaboration of gay and straight possible selves to subjective well-being (SWB) and ego development (ED) in a sample of 107 gay men and lesbians, who wrote narrative descriptions of their straight and gay best possible selves and rated the salience of these narratives (i.e., the clarity of the mental image, how easy it was to imagine). Indepe...