Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life

Behind the Mask: Who Are You Really? (1x12)

Air date: Sep 11, 2020

In this final lecture, Professor Leary reviews the role of self-presentation in our social lives—and our frequent discomfort with it. How can we both manage impressions and be authentic individuals? Is impression management just another form of dishonesty, or an essential tool? The study of self-presentation can reveal to us not just how we want to be seen, but at a much deeper level, who we actually are.