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Reviews the book, Possible Selves: Theory, Research and Applications edited by Curtis Dunkel and Jennifer Kerpelman (see record 2006-04587-000). No one studying or researching possible selves in the present or the future can or should do without it. This book would be useful for graduate students in social, developmental, and personality psychology and clinical/counseling specialties looking for a dissertation topic as well as an additional textbook for graduate courses or seminars on personality theories or development. Apparently, from the many citations about this construct, the self is conceived in terms of actions, performance, or production, not presence. According to Markus's chapter, possible selves is who we would like to become positively in the future, who we might want to become, and who we do not want to become negatively. Strahan and Wilson note that our present identity is influenced by past and future possible selves. Practically every chapter in this book shows how many ways possible selves can be measured: by lifeline (Strahan and Wilson); interview protocol (Frazier and Hooker); anticipated life history (Segal); various components of the self-concept (Nurius, Casey, Lindhurst, and Macy); inventory (Anthis); semistructured interviews, direct observations, recording of conversations with a roommate, self-confrontation, self-report logs, and periodic phone calls monitoring (Marshall, Young, and Domene); Q-sort (Kerpelman); open-ended questionnaire (Dunkel, Kelts, and Coon); and structured questionnaire (Hock, Deshler, and Schumaker). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)