TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-regulation and self-presentation
T2 - Regulatory resource depletion impairs impression management and effortful self-presentation depletes regulatory resources
AU - Vohs, Kathleen D.
AU - Baumeister, Roy F.
AU - Ciarocco, Natalie J.
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - Self-presentation may require self-regulation, especially when familiar or dispositional tendencies must be overridden in service of the desired impression. Studies 1-4 showed that self-presentation under challenging conditions or according to counternormative patterns (presenting oneself modestly to strangers, boastfully to friends, contrary to gender norms, to a skeptical audience, or while being a racial token) led to impaired self-regulation later, suggesting that those self-presentations depleted self-regulatory resources, When self-presentation conformed to familiar, normative, or dispositional patterns, self-regulation was less implicated. Studies 5-8 showed that when resources for self-regulation had been depleted by prior acts of self-control, self-presentation drifted toward less-effective patterns (talking too much, overly or insufficiently intimate disclosures, or egotistical arrogance). Thus, inner processes may serve interpersonal functions, although optimal interpersonal activity exacts a short-term cost.
AB - Self-presentation may require self-regulation, especially when familiar or dispositional tendencies must be overridden in service of the desired impression. Studies 1-4 showed that self-presentation under challenging conditions or according to counternormative patterns (presenting oneself modestly to strangers, boastfully to friends, contrary to gender norms, to a skeptical audience, or while being a racial token) led to impaired self-regulation later, suggesting that those self-presentations depleted self-regulatory resources, When self-presentation conformed to familiar, normative, or dispositional patterns, self-regulation was less implicated. Studies 5-8 showed that when resources for self-regulation had been depleted by prior acts of self-control, self-presentation drifted toward less-effective patterns (talking too much, overly or insufficiently intimate disclosures, or egotistical arrogance). Thus, inner processes may serve interpersonal functions, although optimal interpersonal activity exacts a short-term cost.
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-3514.88.4.632
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.88.4.632
M3 - Article
C2 - 15796665
AN - SCOPUS:17044411261
SN - 0022-3514
VL - 88
SP - 632
EP - 657
JO - Journal of personality and social psychology
JF - Journal of personality and social psychology
IS - 4
ER -