A Broader View of “Self” in Egocentric Social Judgment
Current and Possible Selves
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15411754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rory O’Brien McElwee (Philadelphia University, corresponding author), David Dunning (0000-0002-4565-1208, Cornell University) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 113-130 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Self and Identity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1529-8868 • E-ISSN: 1529-8876 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13576500444000209 |
| OpenAlex | W2100210983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
Virtually all previous research addressing the self as a standard of comparison in social judgment defined the self to be one's current-held characteristics. We extended research on egocentric definitions of social categories (Dunning, Perie, & Story, 1991 Dunning, D, Perie, M and Story, AL. 1991. Self-serving prototypes of social categories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61: 1–12. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and the self-image bias (Lewicki, 1983 Lewicki, P. 1983. Self-image bias in person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45: 384–393. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) by measuring a broader definition of “self” which includes possible selves. In two studies, measures of college students' self-systems (current and possible selves together) accounted for three times as much variance in social judgments (M = 12.9%) than did measures of their current selves alone (M = 4.2%). We argue for the theoretical and empirical benefits of using a broader definition of self in social judgment research
Perception · Personality · Psychological research · Self · Self-image · Variance (accounting · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Handbook of motivation and cognition
Psychology.
Basic objects in natural categories
Actions, Intentions, and Self-Assessment
Self-discrepancy
Family resemblances
Personality, Cognition and Social Interaction
Self-evaluation and the selection of dimensions for evaluating others
Spontaneous Trait Generation
Private ‐and Public Self‐Consciousness and Articulation of the Ought Self from Private and Public Vantages
Possible selves
Self-Consciousness and Cognitive Prototypes of the Ideal Self
Exploring temporal aspects of social identity
Individual differences in prototypicality judgments about trait categories
The Folk Concept of Intentionality
The undesired self
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
Self-serving prototypes of social categories
Egocentric definitions of traits and abilities in social judgment
The ideal self
Self-image bias in person perception
Evidence for egocentric comparison in social judgment
Role of the self-concept in the perception of others
Idiosyncratic trait definitions
Combining and comparing significance levels from nonindependent hypothesis tests
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2017 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |