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ACTION IDENTIFICATION AND IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT: THE OPTIMALITY HYPOTHESIS
Title
ACTION IDENTIFICATION AND IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT: THE OPTIMALITY HYPOTHESIS.
Creator
MCMAHAN, SUSAN C., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
The present research examined within the framework of action identification theory the issue of self-awareness and its effect on impression management. The optimality hypothesis predicts that people should successfully perform an act when their prepotent identification for what they are doing closely matches their capacity to perform the action. In general, difficult acts warrant lower level identities, whereas easy acts warrant higher level identities for optimal performance. The belief was...
Show moreThe present research examined within the framework of action identification theory the issue of self-awareness and its effect on impression management. The optimality hypothesis predicts that people should successfully perform an act when their prepotent identification for what they are doing closely matches their capacity to perform the action. In general, difficult acts warrant lower level identities, whereas easy acts warrant higher level identities for optimal performance. The belief was that self-awareness (a focus on the self-relevance of one's behavior or a focus on the mechanics of one's behavior) parallels the dimension of identification level (high vs. low). Thus, self-focused attention should impair people's performance only to the extent that it pulls their attention away from an optimal level of identification of the action. Overall, the findings support this notion and suggest that when a task is difficult or unfamiliar, it is better to focus on the lower level details of performing the act rather than on the significance or implications of the act. Theoretical issues and implications for self-presentation are discussed.
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Date Issued
1987
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14402
Subject Headings
Intentionalism, Self-presentation
Format
Document (PDF)
The presentation of self
Title
The presentation of self.
Creator
Lopez, Kandy G., Prusa, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description
Curious to understand my fascination with and attraction to certain individuals who live and work in urban, often economically disadvantaged environments, my thesis exhibition explores properties of paint and image to develop a personal and compelling visual vocabulary that communicates as well as celebrates the strength, power, confidence and swag of these individuals. This work investigates the "face" people front in public in order to survive their situations. Representing individuals...
Show moreCurious to understand my fascination with and attraction to certain individuals who live and work in urban, often economically disadvantaged environments, my thesis exhibition explores properties of paint and image to develop a personal and compelling visual vocabulary that communicates as well as celebrates the strength, power, confidence and swag of these individuals. This work investigates the "face" people front in public in order to survive their situations. Representing individuals within my own community in Miami, these portraits help me come to terms with the way I too have adopted and performed identities of survival. Additionally, I want this work to make visual record of these compelling individuals rarely acknowledged within the history of art.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004134
Subject Headings
Art and society, Communication and culture, Self perception in art, Self perception in art, Self presentation, Social role
Format
Document (PDF)
Modes of self-directed attention
Title
Modes of self-directed attention: dynamic model of self-regulation.
Creator
Strawinska, Urszula., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Establishing and maintaining a clear and stable view of oneself is one of the major goals that human beings are motivated by. Individuals' environment is overflowing with a variety of self-relevant feedback. Yet, humans are able to generalize their experience into idiosyncratic self-concept, that despite being the largest, and most complex of all cognitive structures provides a good frame of reference for regulation of action, emotion, and cognition. This research project examined a dynamic...
Show moreEstablishing and maintaining a clear and stable view of oneself is one of the major goals that human beings are motivated by. Individuals' environment is overflowing with a variety of self-relevant feedback. Yet, humans are able to generalize their experience into idiosyncratic self-concept, that despite being the largest, and most complex of all cognitive structures provides a good frame of reference for regulation of action, emotion, and cognition. This research project examined a dynamic model of self-regulation that explains how humans manage to arrive at and maintain a coherent understanding of who they are and what they are like despite the abundance and constant influx of often contradictory self-relevant information. The dynamic model of self-regulation emphasizes the role of selective attention to specific regions of the self-concept as a prerequisite for self-concept adaptive development and functional expression. From a dynamical systems perspective the self-concept is conceptualized as a dynamic cognitive structure of knowledge that becomes organized into meaningful self-aspects (i.e., identities, self-perceived traits, roles) that differ with respect to evaluative coherence. Some self-aspects are coherent and comprise exclusively positive or exclusively negative elements, while other do not achieve evaluative coherence and are comprised of self-beliefs with mixed evaluations. As the focus of conscious attention changes between coherent and incoherent areas, the experience of Self and implications of self-concept for ongoing processes change accordingly. The total number of 296 participants took part in four studies conducted in Poland and in the United States., The studies utilized interesting procedures to investigate the dynamics and structure of the self-concept and the consequences of the evaluative differentiation of the self-concept for intrapersonal and interpersonal processes. Participants filled out personality and self-concept measures on-line, performed the cardsorting and mouse procedure tasks, and interacted with a chat-bot conversational program. Results of the studies attest to the validity of the model and suggest that individuals focus their attention on incoherent self-aspects to facilitate the formation and development of the self-concept and that focus on coherent self-aspects facilitates effective use of the self-concept for the regulation of ongoing processes.
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Date Issued
2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2138107
Subject Headings
Self-management (Psychology), Self-perception, Identity (Psychology), Adjustment (Psychology), Mind and body, Self-presentation, Interpersonal relations, Social interactions
Format
Document (PDF)
Like, Follow, Share
Title
Like, Follow, Share.
Creator
Goodarzi, Naghmeh, Afanador Llach, Camila, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description
My intention for this show is to explore the effect of alienation that ironically is being produced by social media. The principal concept is developed around shame, sharing, and notoriety on three different social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram. This show explores the social media perception of myself in the realms of human interaction, identity, and memory in social media through the critical appropriation of the languages of design and photography. The...
Show moreMy intention for this show is to explore the effect of alienation that ironically is being produced by social media. The principal concept is developed around shame, sharing, and notoriety on three different social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram. This show explores the social media perception of myself in the realms of human interaction, identity, and memory in social media through the critical appropriation of the languages of design and photography. The installation with four Facebook profile pictures in large scale and framed looks at the way a personal image can convey the impression of widely different personalities. The selections of personal exchanges over Facebook and Instagram show the degree to which social media creates its own visual language and mode of communication, which sometimes becomes separated from reality and intention. The show extends its reach to performance and direct interaction with the viewer through the availability of stickers for comments by the profile pictures and a third area, where viewers can write or draw their own messages through the simple medium of chalk, which can then be rendered in virtual form through posts on a specially created webpage. The viewer should thus be challenged to ask, to what degrees do words and images communicate the essence of our selves and our own will.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004731, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004731
Subject Headings
Self-presentation., Online social networks., Social media--Semiotics., Digital communications--Social aspects., Digital media--Social aspects., Internet--Social aspects., Visual communication--Digital techniques., Emoticons., Social conflict in mass media., .
Format
Document (PDF)