Reflections on Reputation in the Process of Self-Evaluation

Autor: Charles G. Lord, Genevieve Pere, Richard Clubb, Donna M. Desforges, Sandra Chacon
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Social Cognition. 10:2-29
ISSN: 0278-016X
DOI: 10.1521/soco.1992.10.1.2
Popis: Evidence from response latency and memory suggests that the process of self-evaluation of personality traits includes reflections on reputation. In Study 1, university students decided whether or not they had various personality traits. These self-evaluations were quicker when preceded by a decision about a parent's evaluation on the same trait than when preceded by an autobiographical decision about relevant past behaviors or by a decision about an acquaintance's evaluation. In Study 2, grade 2-4 children decided whether or not they had various personality traits. Children who had relatively negative reputations in the eyes of their parents or teachers were more likely than children who had relatively positive reputations to remember deciding whether they had unlikable as opposed to likable traits, especially unlikable traits that they claimed they did not have. Study 3's results replicated Study 2's results with university students and their reputations in the eyes of their roommates. Again, memory diff...
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