THE INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS OF SELF-CONCEPT STABILITY

这是一项要求，要求继续支持与下列问题有关的研究： 人的社会信念和人际关系之间的动态相互作用 它们所处的环境。 研究计划假设 大多数人感知的先前概念化（这些过程 人们对自己和他人形成的信念）是不够的 因为他们过分强调了这个过程中的认知中介。 的 拟议的研究建立在一个更广泛的概念化基础上， 人的感知是一个基本的人际过程，通常 使人们能够建立和维持平稳的运作 关系。 第一部分试图确定人际机制，干扰 治疗师改变消极自我观的努力。 有人试图 为了检验假设，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 反馈的方式与他们的负面自我观点相一致; (c)经常和不称职的尝试，以获得积极的反馈， 他们的朋友，密友，甚至治疗师都会回应他们， 矛盾和拒绝。 第二部分研究了人们行为和行为的基础过程， 对否定自我概念的反馈的认知反应。 实验的目的是确定人们在何种条件下 可能：（a）在行为上确认与否定以下信念： 其他人;（B）让他们的密友支持他们的自我概念，当这些 概念受到攻击;以及（c）进入并留在 亲密的人对他们的看法不准确。 研究 还提出了指定的过程，减少的概率， 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，即如果人们的行为限制了 他们的互动伙伴的反应（正如我期望在第一部分和第二部分中找到的那样）。 那么，了解人们何时以及如何意识到这一点是很重要的 制约影响力。 几项调查试图确定 心理过程，这种意识的基础，以及 意识与人际冲突的关系。 在一般水平上，这项研究旨在导致发展 一个真正的人际理论的人的看法，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.