The Self Not Taken: How Alternative Selves Develop and How They Influence Our Professional Lives
提出“替代性自我”这一概念，指自我概念中那些重新定义自我的反事实。探讨了替代性自我如何形成，以及它们如何影响人们的职业生活，对自我概念、人生故事和反事实思维研究有启示。
This article introduces the construct of alternative selves—self-redefining counterfactuals that are part of the self-concept. This construct adds the parallel time line of what could have been to the temporal framework underlying theories of the self. I discuss how alternative selves develop and how they influence people's professional lives, and I outline the implications of this construct for research on the self-concept, life stories, and counterfactual thinking.