Opinion change and performance facilitation as a result of objective self-awareness ☆

摘要: Abstract Three experiments were designed to demonstrate that objective self-awareness, a state in which the individual evaluates himself and attempts attain correctness consistency his beliefs behaviors, can mediate both opinion change performance facilitation. In Experiment I, self-awareness was increased for some Ss when they heard their own tape-recorded voices, relative an appropriate control condition, those showed agreement with modal of positive reference group. II, subjects engaged counterattitudinal essay-writing, them exposed operating television camera while wrote. It found direction essays greater among who than not. III attempt facilitation effects be produced through self-evaluation. Approximately half performed routine task facing mirror, remaining same no mirror. argued theoretically mirror would effect self-evaluation respect rate, consistent this expectation, better presence