SALIENT PRIVATE AUDIENCES AND AWARENESS OF THE SELF
SALIENT PRIVATE AUDIENCES AND AWARENESS OF THE SELF
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.52.6.1087
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发表时间:
1987-06-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
HOLMES, JG
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作者:
BALDWIN, MW;HOLMES, JG
We used self-awareness and cognitive priming methodologies to test the hypothesis that important aspects of the experience of self derive from the way one would be perceived and responded to by a private audience of internally represented significant others. In the first study, 40 undergraduate women visualized the faces of either two acquaintances from campus or two older members of their own family. Later, when they rated the enjoyableness of a sexually permissive piece of fiction, they tended to respond in ways that would be acceptable to their salient private audience. There was some evidence that this effect was especially pronounced for subjects made self-aware by the presence of a small mirror, whose responsivity to self-image concerns was presumably heightened. In the second study, 60 undergraduate men were exposed to a failure experience, and their resulting self-evaluations were assessed. Self-aware subjects' responses reflected the evaluative style of a recently visualized private audience. Strong negative self-evaluative reactions on a number of measures were evident when the salient audience tended to make acceptance contingent on successful performances, but not when the audience manifested relatively noncontingent acceptance. These results demonstrate the influence of internally represented significant relationships on the experience of self.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)