Self-Awareness & Causal Attribution

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Self-awareness - the ability to recognize one's existence - is one of the most important variables in psychology. Without self-awareness, people would be unable to self-reflect, recognize differences between the self and others, or compare themselves with internalized standards. Social, clinical, and personality psychologists have recognized the significance of self-awareness in human functioning, and have conducted much research on how it participates in everyday life and in psychological dysfunctions. SelfAwareness & Causal Attribution: A DualSystems Theory presents a new theory of how selfawareness affects thought, feeling, and action. Based on experimental socialpsychological research, the authors describe how several interacting cognitive systems determine the links between selfawareness and organized activity. This theory addresses when people become selffocused, how people internalize and change personal standards, when people approach or avoid troubling situations, and the nature of selfevaluation. Special emphasis is given to causal attribution, the process of perceiving causality. SelfAwareness & Causal Attribution will be useful to social, clinical, and personality psychologists, as well as to anyone interested in how the self relates to motivation and emotion.

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