Roy Baumeister
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Roy F. Baumeister (born May 16, 1953) is a social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality and sex differences, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, aggression, consciousness, and free will.
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Culture and human sexuality
A series of studies of human sexuality has addressed questions such as how nature and culture influence people's sex drive, rape and sexual coercion, the cultural suppression of female sexuality, and how couples negotiate their sexual patterns. In his research, Baumeister reached four major conclusions:
- The relative influence of culture and nature on sexuality varies by gender. Female sexuality is more cultural/nurture, and male sexuality is more in-born/nature (see erotic plasticity).
- There is a gender difference with sex drive. Men, on average, want more sex than women.
- The present widespread cultural suppression of female sexuality exists in large part at the behest of women.
- Sexual interactions can be analyzed in terms of cost-benefit analysis and market dynamics with "sexual economics."
Works
Baumeister has written or edited some 30 books, over 500 publications, and has been cited nearly 100,000 times in research literature. Additionally, he authors the column Cultural Animal for Psychology Today. The following is a partial listing of his works.
Books
General audience
- Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men (2010).
- Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (2011).
Crossover: general audience and academic
- Escaping the Self: Alcoholism, Spirituality, Masochism, and Other Flights from the Burden of Selfhood (1991).
- Your Own Worst Enemy: Understanding the Paradox of Self-Defeating Behavior (1993).
- Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty (1997).
- Identity: Cultural Change and the Struggle for Self (1986).
- Masochism and the Self (1989).
- Meanings of Life (1991).
- Breaking Hearts: The Two Sides of Unrequited Love (1994).
- Losing Control: How and Why People Fail at Self-Regulation (1994).
- The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life (2005).
- Homo Prospectus (2016).
Academic books (some books as editor)
- The Social Dimension of Sex (2000).
- Public Self and Private Self (1986).
- Self-Esteem: The Puzzle of Low Self-Regard (1993).
- The Self in Social Psychology (1999).
- Social Psychology and Human Sexuality (2001).
- Human Sexuality: Meeting Your Basic Needs (2002).
- Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice (2003).
- Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications (2004).
- Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (2007).
- Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making?: A Hedgefoxian Perspective (2007).
- Social Psychology and Human Nature (2008).
- Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will (2008).
- Psychology of Self-Regulation: Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes (2009).
- Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? (2010).
- Advanced Social Psychology (2010).
- New Directions in Social Psychology (2012).
- The Self and Identity (2014).
- The Social Psychology of Living Well (2018)
Publications
- “Role of self-control failure in immoral and unethical actions” (2016)
- “Power, leadership, and self-regulation” (2012)
- “Is there a downside to good self-control?” (2009)
- “Why do bad moods increase self-defeating behavior? Emotion, risk taking, and self-regulation” (1996)
- “Many concepts of the self” (1988)
- “Development of self-consciousness: At what age does audience pressure disrupt performance?”
- “The self-monitor looks at the ingratiator” (1976)
Blog Posts
- “The Reality of the Male Sex Drive” (2010)
- “Do the Laws of Physics Permit Any Exceptions” (2009)
- “John Bargh and Some Misunderstandings About Free Will” (2009)
- “Determinism Is Not Just Causality” (2009)
- “Should Football Penalize Celebrating and Taunting” (2009)
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