Forskning/empiri

Question 1

Self Schemas, Hazel Markus (1977)

Answer 1

• Participants rated themselves as either dependent or independent
• They were rated as either schematic (rated extremely in one direction) or aschematic (rated themselves in the middle)
• Later they rated how well a series of traits described them
• Schematic participants judged schema-relevant traits as true or not true of themselves much more quickly than schematic participants, suggesting that people are more attuned to information that maps onto an existing self-schema
• Schematic participants were more likely to refute feedback from a test that contradicted their self-schemas
• Shows that self schemas help us process information in the specific domain more quickly, as we retrieve relevant evidence faster