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Self-regulation and selfpresentation: Regulatory resource depletion impairs impression management and effortful self-presentation depletes regulatory resources (2005)
| Venue: | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |
| Citations: | 137 - 29 self |
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@ARTICLE{Vohs05self-regulationand,
author = {Kathleen D. Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister and Natalie J. Ciarocco},
title = {Self-regulation and selfpresentation: Regulatory resource depletion impairs impression management and effortful self-presentation depletes regulatory resources},
journal = {Journal of Personality and Social Psychology},
year = {2005},
pages = {632--657}
}
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Abstract
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 selfregulatory 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. The attentive pupil who wishes to be attentive, his eyes riveted on the teacher, his ears open wide, so exhausts himself in playing the attentive role that he ends up by no longer hearing anything. —John Paul Sartre One of the most vital skills in human social life involves
Keyphrases
effortful self-presentation depletes regulatory resource impression management regulatory resource depletion human social life involves attentive pupil intimate disclosure selfregulatory resource inner process john paul sartre attentive role short-term cost less-effective pattern prior act racial token vital skill dispositional tendency desired impression interpersonal function optimal interpersonal activity counternormative pattern skeptical audience dispositional pattern egotistical arrogance
