SELF-EXTENSION

an investment in ego where things are brought from outside the self that a person feels an affinity with. the extension of ego outside the self.

SELF-EXTENSION: “According to Gordon Allport, self-extension is seen when a child starts to incorporate people and objects in to the self-concept.”
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