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Repression, self-presentation and action identification: Audience effects on self-deception

Cairns, Kenneth B.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1060104460

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1992, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Psychology.
Repressors attend to unfavorable feedback concerning the self for longer in public than in private, presumably to devise a self-presentational response to this feedback (Cairns, 1989). In Study 1, it was predicted that repressors who viewed unfavorable feedback would express more thoughts aimed at refuting or understanding another's impression of such feedback than would subjects in other conditions. Subjects received favorable or unfavorable public feedback and completed a thought-listing task. Repressors expressed more thoughts concerned with another's impression of this feedback than did subjects in other conditions. In private, people may avoid the unpleasant implications of unflattering feedback by shifting to simplistic levels of thought. In Study 2, it was predicted that repressors would shift to low levels of action identification when presented with unfavorable information in private, but not in public. Subjects viewed feedback in public or private and completed two measures of action identification. Ratings of thought-listing protocols indicated that subjects shifted levels of action identification, but not in accordance with the predictions.
Roy Baumeister (Advisor)
115 p.
Psychology, Social
Repression; Self-presentation; Self-deception

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  • Cairns, K. B. (1992). Repression, self-presentation and action identification: Audience effects on self-deception [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1060104460

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cairns, Kenneth. Repression, self-presentation and action identification: Audience effects on self-deception. 1992. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1060104460.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cairns, Kenneth. "Repression, self-presentation and action identification: Audience effects on self-deception." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1060104460

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