SELF-CONCEPT STABILITY AND INTERPERSONAL PROCESSES

该研究涉及社会信仰和社会信仰之间的动态相互作用。 维持这些信念的人际环境。 曾经的关注 长期以来困扰临床医生的一个现象是： 人们的行为方式会延续他们自己的厌恶 心理状态。 如果关注以下可能性，请注意 具有消极自我观的人会寻找能强化自我观的关系伙伴 他们的自尊心低下或抑郁，从而造成人际关系 使他们的自我概念非常难以改变的循环。 补充实验室和现场研究试图明确普遍性 以及这种潜在的自我毁灭性的心理前因 倾向。 具有消极自我观的人倾向于寻找那些 不喜欢他们是令人费解的，因为在某种程度上，这些人想要 当他们被拒绝时，就会受到认可和痛苦。 这表明他们可能 陷入消极欲望和积极欲望之间的交火 反馈。 尝试识别潜在的过程 这样的交火。 此外，还有逃避它们的机制，例如 交叉火力被探索。 其中一种机制——自我概念改变—— 被检查。 例如，人们自己经历的过程 考虑外部因素发起的自我概念改变。 最后一系列研究考察了背景下自我概念的变化 更大的身份协商过程。 正在努力铺设 揭示人们的关系伙伴提供帮助的机制 稳定或改变他们的自我看法。 此外，纵向 调查考察了评估之间的契合度的影响 感知者和目标的自我概念：(a) 对感知者的评价和对目标的自我看法； (b) 健康和 目标的幸福感以及 (c) 目标的质量和持续时间 关系。 审查问题的复杂性和广度要求 深化和拓宽 PI 的知识基础。 此次续签将 通过丰富学术环境来促进这一目标的实现 申请人所在机构，释放时间参加相关课程 课程作业，并使进行一次或多次长期访问成为可能 到其他机构。 这些经历将增强申请人的 有能力追求发展综合理论的目标 包含社会相互影响的社会认知 思想和社会行动。

The research concerns the dynamic interplay between social beliefs and the interpersonal environments that sustain those beliefs. Once concern is with a phenomenon that has long puzzled clinician: the tendency for people to behave in ways that perpetuate their own aversive psychological states. Attention if focused on the possibility that people with negative self-views seek relationship partners who reinforce their low self-esteem or depression, thereby creating interpersonal cycles that make their self-concepts very resistant to change. Complementary lab and field studies attempt to specify the generality and psychological antecedents of such potentially self-destructive tendencies. The tendency for individuals with negative self-views to seek people who dislike them is puzzling because, at some level, such individuals want approval and suffer when they are rejected. This suggests that they may be caught in a crossfire between a desire for negative and positive feedback. Attempts are made to identify the processes that underlie such crossfires. In addition, mechanisms for escaping them such crossfires are explored. One such mechanism -- self-concept change -- is examined. For example, the processes through which people themselves and outside agents initiate self-concept change are considered. The final series of studies examine self-concept change in the context of the larger process of identity negotiation. Efforts are made to lay bare the mechanisms whereby people's relationship partners help stabilize or change their self-views,. Furthermore, longitudinal investigations examine the impact of the fit between the appraisals of perceivers and the self-conceptions of targets on: (a) change in the appraisals of perceivers and self-views of targets; (b) the health and happiness of targets and (c) the quality and duration of the relationships. The complexity and breadth of the issues under scrutiny require deepening and broadening of the PI's knowledge base. The renewal will facilitate this goal by enriching the intellectual environment at the applicant's home institution, releasing time to take relevant coursework, and making it possible to take one or more extended visits to other institutions. Such experiences will enhance the applicant's ability to pursue his goal of developing a comprehensive theory of social perception that embraces the reciprocal influence of social thought and social action.