SELF-CONCEPT STABILITY AND INTERPERSONAL PROCESSES

要求为ADAMHA RSDA提供五年的支持。这是一部 研究假设大多数人知觉的先验概念化 (人们形成对自己和他人的信念的过程) 是不够的，因为它们强调的是 处理和忽略行为和人际关系方面的 进程。拟议的研究建立在一个更广泛的概念上，即 假设人的感知从根本上说是一个人际过程 这通常是为了使人们能够顺利地建立和维持 正常运转的关系。 第一部分试图找出干扰的人际机制 治疗师努力改变消极的自我看法。进行了尝试 检验假设：在某些条件下，个人：(A) 输入他们收到负面反馈的关系；(B)解释 以与他们的负面自我观点相适应的方式进行反馈；以及 (C)经常作出不称职的尝试，以获得积极的反馈， 他们的朋友、密友甚至治疗师对此的反应是矛盾的 和拒绝。 第二部分考察了人们行为和行为基础上的过程 对不确定自我概念的反馈的认知反应。 实验的设计是为了确定人们在什么条件下 可能：(A)在行为上确认而不是否认某人的信念 其他人；(B)当他们的亲信支持他们的自我概念时 概念受到攻击；以及(C)保持以下关系 他们的密友以一种自我矛盾的方式看待他们。研究是 还建议具体说明降低以下可能性的流程 人们会收到自我矛盾的反馈。 第三部分探讨了这样一个概念：如果人们的行为限制了 他们的互动伙伴的回应(我希望在第一部分和 Ii)，那么重要的是了解人们何时以及如何意识到这一点 限制影响力。几项调查试图确定 作为这种意识基础的心理过程以及 意识与人际冲突之间的关系。 从总体上讲，这项研究的目的是为了促进 一种真正的人与人之间的知觉理论，承认 社会思想和社会行动之间的动态相互作用。

Five years of support are requested for an ADAMHA RSDA. The program of research assumes that most prior conceptualizations of person perception (those processes by which people form beliefs about themselves and others) are inadequate because they emphasize the cognitive mediators of the process and ignore the behavioral and interpersonal aspects of the process. The proposed research rests on a broader conceptualization which assumes that person perception is a fundamentally interpersonal process that ordinarily serves to enable people to establish and maintain smoothly functioning relationships. Part I attempts to identify interpersonal mechanisms that interfere with the efforts of therapists to change negative self-views. Attempts are made to test the hypothesis that under certain conditions individuals: (a) enter relationships in which they receive negative feedback; (b) interpret feedback in ways that are compatible with their negative self-views; and (c) make frequent and incompetent attempts to elicit positive feedback, to which their friends, intimates and even therapists respond with ambivalence and rejections. Part II examines the processes that underlie people's behavioral and cognitive reactions to feedback that disconfirms their self-conceptions. Experiments are designed to identify the conditions under which people are likely to: (a) behaviorally confirm versus disconfirm the beliefs of others; (b) have their intimates support their self-conceptions when these conceptions are under attack; and (c) remain in relationships in which their intimates perceive them in a self-discrepant manner. Studies are also proposed to specify processes that diminish the probability that people receive self-discrepant feedback. Part III explores the notion that if people's actions constrain the responses of their interaction partners (as I expect to find in parts I and II), then it is important to learn when and how people become aware of this constraining influence. Several investigations attempts to identify the psychological processes that underlie such awareness as well as the relationship between awareness and interpersonal conflict. At a general level, this research is intended to result in the development of a truly interpersonal theory of person perception that acknowledges the dynamic interplay between social thought and social action.