THE INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS OF SELF-CONCEPT STABILITY

这是一项请求继续支持与 人们的社会信仰和人际关系之间的动态相互作用 它们所嵌入的环境。研究计划假定 大多数人感知的先验概念化(那些由 人们形成对自己和他人的信念)是不够的 因为他们过分强调了这一过程的认知中介。这个 拟议的研究基于一个更广泛的概念化，即假设 人的感知从根本上说是一个人际关系的过程，通常 使人们能够建立和保持顺畅的运作 两性关系。 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，甚至心理医生都会对此做出回应 矛盾心理和拒绝。 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；和(C)进入并保持在 他们的密友对他们的看法不准确的关系。研究 还建议指定可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。

This is a request for continuing support for research concerned with the dynamic interplay between people's social beliefs and the interpersonal environments in which they are embedded. 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 overemphasize the cognitive mediators 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 rejection. 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) enter into and remain in relationships in which their intimates perceive them inaccurately. 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 attempt 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.