Chapter 2
The Social Self
![The Sense of Self: Reflected Self-Appraisal and Social Comparison](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11037.jpg)
According to Charles Cooley, we base our image on what we think other people see (Cooley 1902). We imagine how we must appear to others, then react…
![Self-Schemas](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11038.jpg)
In general, a schema is a mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts (Bartlett, 1932). There are many…
![Self-Evaluation: Self-Enhancement and Self-Verification](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11040.jpg)
Social psychologists have documented that feeling good about ourselves and maintaining positive self-esteem is a powerful motivator of human behavior…
![Self-Discrepancy Theory](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11041.jpg)
One influential perspective on what motivates people's behavior is detailed in Tory Higgin's self-discrepancy theory (Higgins, 1987). He…
![The Rouge Test: Searching for a Sense of Self](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/10111.jpg)
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles and Judith Danovitch—University of Louisville
Humans are different from other animals in many ways, but…
![Effects of Thinking Abstractly or Concretely on Self-control](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/10332.jpg)
Source: Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel—New York University
Whether it's refraining from having a second serving of ice cream, studying…
![Experimental Paradigm for Measuring the Effects of Self-distancing in Young Children](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/thumbs/59056_t.png)
Self-distancing (i.e., creating mental distance between the self and a stimulus by adopting a less egocentric perspective) has been studied as a way…
![Creating Virtual-hand and Virtual-face Illusions to Investigate Self-representation](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/thumbs/54784_t.png)
Creating Virtual-hand and Virtual-face Illusions to Investigate Self-representation
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Studies investigating how people represent themselves and their own body often use variants of "ownership illusions", such as the traditional…