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Автентичност в съвременното общество
Authenticity in Contemporary Society

Author(s): Nadya Mateeva
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Институт за изследване на населението и човека - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: authenticity; personal experience; interpersonal relations; intergroup relations; communication;

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary society we live in, may be characterized with a culture, thirst¬ing for sincerity and honesty in human’s relations, or culture wishing for authen¬ticity. In many cases, in which we communicate with others – colleagues, man¬agers, friends, relatives and etc., we want to know a little bit more about their experiences, and a little more about theirselves. Together with these, we often have a desire to be more free in our expressions, words, actions, and relations and with these to be more near to our actual self. Unfortunately, making these desires in a reality is accompanied with many scares and efforts for how we imagine we look like in others’ eyes and what vision have they formed about us. Experiences and facts like these provoke at the same time our great respect and interest for their scientific investigation, and are a motive for developing the present work, which pretends to be a kind of introduction to a more deep psychological investigation of the construct “authenticity”.

  • Issue Year: 14/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 43-56
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian