Note that self-presentation isn’t the same as lying. You may have indeed stayed up all night studying, but the thought that you could have studied inefficiently doesn’t come to mind.

Using interviews, a laboratory experiment, and a résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial ...

This study used direct observation to investigate the relationship between audience characteristics and the verbal self-presentational behaviors of 34 school principals. The results revealed that the ...