Identification, parent-cathexis, and self-esteem.

Toward a General Theory of Action.

Clarence Schrag, Talcott Parsons, Edward Shils et al. · American Sociological Review · 1952 · 1.7K citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +6

The prediction of interpersonal attraction.

Theodore M. Newcomb · American Psychologist · 1956 · 663 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +12

LEARNING THEORY AND PERSONALITY DYNAMICS

O. Hobart Mowrer · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 1953 · 592 citations

Education, Educational Psychology, Psychology +5

Body-cathexis and the ideal female figure.

Sidney M. Jourard, Paul F. Secord · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 1955 · 148 citations

Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Aesthetics +10

Early Development of the Ego: Identification in Infancy

Ives Hendrick · The Psychoanalytic Quarterly · 1951 · 49 citations

Education, Human Development, Psychology +13