Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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948143 | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 2008 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Self-consciousness has been shown to both increase and decrease the magnitude of prime-to-behavior effects. In this paper, we decouple the facets of self-consciousness into internal state awareness and self-reflectiveness and show that self-consciousness can be associated with multiple influences on automatic behavior. Specifically, we conducted an experiment demonstrating that increased internal state awareness decreased the magnitude of the prime-to-behavior effect, whereas increased self-reflectiveness amplified the effect. These effects operated independently of self-monitoring and suggest a multiple process approach to understanding prime-to-behavior effects.
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Authors
S. Christian Wheeler, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Kenneth G. DeMarree, Richard E. Petty,