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To examine how cognitive generalizations about the self (self-schemata) guide and organize the processing of self-relevant social information.

February 1, 1977Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Self-schemata and processing information about the self.

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HMHazel Rose MarkusAntioch University Seattle

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Experimental study demonstrates that self-schemata enhance cognitive processing and resistance to counterschematic data in students, highlighting their role in self-knowledge stability.

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To examine how cognitive generalizations about the self (self-schemata) guide and organize the processing of self-relevant social information.
Selected female students categorized as possessing domain-specific self-schemata or as being aschematic in that domain.
Compared participant performance across various cognitive tasks assessing self-judgments, behavioral retrieval, self-prediction, and response to counterschematic input.
Individuals with self-schemata processed judgments and decisions regarding the self more efficiently than those without schemata.
Self-schemata enabled rapid retrieval of supporting behavioral evidence, increased confidence in predicting future schema-consistent behaviors, and heightened resistance to counterschematic information.

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Hazel Rose Markus (1977) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d775fcdb9d5e1bf4b8accf https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.35.2.63

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Experimental study demonstrates that self-schemata enhance cognitive processing and resistance to counterschematic data in students, highlighting their role in self-knowledge stability.

Self-schemata and processing information about the self.

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Self-schemata and processing information about the self.

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