Self Awareness and Self Regulation (oct.7) Flashcards
What is self-awareness?
the degree to which a person is paying attention to their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
What are sources of self awareness?
- social disruptions (embarrassment)
- salience of self (altering physical appearence, thinking you stand out)
- personality variable (some peopoe just think about themself more)
- self-focusing stimuli (mirror)
What are the effects of self awareness?
(1) self evaluation
(2) behavioral regulation
(3) escaping self awareness)
What is self evaluation?
comparing yourself to standards
- are you meeting them? no? -> negative effect
- ex rating carpet samples and watching themself, cowboys, or nothing
- self esteem went down when watching themself
How does one regulate their behavior?
(a) social standards
(b) personal standards
(c) activated standards)
(d) standards from relational schemas
Social Standards Experiment (bell)
- participants given an anagram test
- opporunity to cheat by stopping after they heard the bell
- without a mirror 71% cheated
- with a mirror 7% cheated
Social Standards Experiment (candy)
- children sent into room with candy
- no mirror they take 4.5
- mirror they take 2.2
- instructed only to take 1
- no mirror 2.4
- mirror 1.2
Personal Standards Experiment
Gibbons premeasure of sex guilt
- premeasure with questionaire about sexuality comfortability
- had them read erotic literature and rate it
- with mirror there was a large correlation between ratings and premeasure score (0.74)
- without mirror there was a small correlation between ratings and premeasure score (0.2)
Activated Standards Experiment
Vallacher and Solocky
- draw a single line drawing
- told luck would help the test or that it was a measure of intelligence (primed)
- self scoring allowed people to cheat
- without a mirror, about 50% cheated for both groups
- with a mirror, no luck participants cheated, but almost all ability participants cheated
- ability participants had a desire to confirm their self esteem and prove their ability, making social standard of not cheating unimportant
Standards from relational schemas experiment
- undergraduate women visualize parents or friends
- asked to read sexy story and rate it
- no mirror = no different between primes
- mirror = friend prime rate it higher, parent prime rate it lower
Escaping Self-Awareness Experiment
Dural and Wicklund
- gave participants success or failure feedback
- wait in room with and without mirror
- everybody waited 8 min except people in mirror room with failure feedback who left after 5 to escape the negative feelings coming from their self awareness and evaluation