Self-consciousness,evaluation of physical characteristics,and physical attractiveness |
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Authors: | Robert G Turner LuNell Gilliland Helen M Klein |
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Institution: | Pepperdine University USA;University of Texas at Austin USA |
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Abstract: | Results from an investigation of the relationship between habitual awareness of oneself as a social object (Public self-consciousness) and speed of processing information about the overt self are reported. Since high public self-consciousness subjects report themselves to be concerned about their physical appearance, they were expected to have more readily retrievable evaluative judgments concerning their physical characteristics. Consistent with this prediction, high compared to low public consciousness subjects required significantly less time to report their evaluations of eleven of their physical features. In a second study, high public self-consciousness was shown to be positively related to judged physical attractiveness in two geographically diverse samples. The quicker evaluations of the high public self-consciousness group were discussed in terms of information processing model recently described by Markus (1977). |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to: Robert G Turner 660 Parrington Oval Room 114 University of Oklahoma Norman Oklahoma 73019 |
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