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self and self-concept  

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  • At the end of the nineteenth century, the Harvard psychologist William James laid down a cornerstone of modern self theory. In his 1890 Principles of Psychology, James distinguished between the self as knower (the I) and the self as object known (the Me, or self-concept). [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Self and Self-Concept]

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