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A critique of authenticity: how psychology can help
Tourism Critiques, Vol.5(1), pp.44-64
2024
Abstract
Authenticity has been studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, leading to a rich but confused literature. This study, a review, aims to compare the psychology and sociology/tourism definitions of authenticity to clarify the concept. From a psychological perspective, authenticity is a mental appraisal of an object or experience as valued leading to feelings and summative judgements (such as satisfaction or perceived value). In objective authenticity, a person values the object due to belief in an expert’s opinion, constructive authenticity relies on socially constructed values, while existential authenticity is based on one’s self-identity. The resultant achievement of a valued goal, such as seeing a valued object, leads to feelings of pleasure. Sociological definitions are similar but based on different theoretical antecedent causes of constructed and existential authenticity. The paper further discusses the use of theory in tourism and the project to develop tourism as a discipline. This project is considered unlikely to be successful and in turn, as argued, it is more useful to apply theory from other disciplines in a multidisciplinary manner. The results emphasise that it is necessary for tourism researchers to understand the origins and development of the concepts they use and their various definitions.
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- Title
- A critique of authenticity: how psychology can help
- Authors
- Noel Scott (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research ClusterAna Claudia Campos (Author) - University of Algarve
- Publication details
- Tourism Critiques, Vol.5(1), pp.44-64
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1108/TRC-10-2023-0027
- ISSN
- 2633-1233
- Copyright note
- © 2024, Noel Scott and Ana Claudia Campos. Published in Tourism Critiques: Practice and Theory. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
- Organisation Unit
- Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991006998802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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