SELF-CONCEPT STABILITY AND INTERPERSONAL PROCESSES

这项研究关注的是社会信仰和 维持这些信念的人际环境。 一旦关注 是一个长期困扰临床医生的现象： 的趋势 人们的行为方式，使他们自己的厌恶， 心理状态。 如果把注意力集中在 有消极自我观的人会寻找那些能强化自我的伴侣， 他们的低自尊或抑郁，从而创造人际关系， 使他们的自我概念非常抗拒改变的周期。 补充的实验室和实地研究试图说明一般性 以及这种潜在的自我毁灭的心理前因 倾向。 有消极自我观点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，这些人希望 被拒绝的时候，被拒绝的时候，被拒绝。 这表明，他们可能 陷入消极和积极的欲望之间的交叉火力 反馈 试图确定的过程， 这样的交叉火力。 此外，逃离它们的机制， 探索了交叉火力。 其中一个机制--自我概念的改变-- 进行了检查。 例如，人们自己 和外部代理启动自我概念的变化被认为是。 最后一系列的研究探讨了自我概念的变化， 更大的身份协商过程。 努力奠定 暴露了人们的伴侣帮助 稳定或改变他们的自我观点。 此外，纵向 调查研究的影响之间的配合评价 （a）在下列方面的变化： （B）对目标的感知者和自我看法的评价; 目标的幸福感和（c）目标的质量和持续时间 关系。 所审查问题的复杂性和广泛性要求 深化和扩大PI的知识基础。 续发行 促进这一目标，丰富知识环境， 申请人的原籍院校，释放时间采取有关 课程作业，并使其有可能采取一个或多个延长访问 其他机构。 这些经验将提高申请人的 有能力追求他的目标，发展一个全面的理论， 社会认知，包括社会的相互影响， 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.