Thinking about ourselves and others: Self-monitoring and social knowledge

Mark Snyder, Nancy Cantor

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

89 Scopus citations

Abstract

124 undergraduates were administered the Self-Monitoring Scale and asked to respond to personality traits for themselves or another person. Ss with high self-monitoring scores were particularly skilled at constructing informative images of individuals who were prototypic examples of each of a variety of trait domains; low self-monitoring Ss were particularly skilled at constructing informative images of their characteristic selves in each trait domain. (22 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)222-234
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
Volume39
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1980

Keywords

  • high vs low self monitoring, assessment of own &
  • other's personality traits, college students

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Thinking about ourselves and others: Self-monitoring and social knowledge'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this