creators_name: Morin, Alain
type: journalp
datestamp: 2002-10-28
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:05
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title: Self-talk and self-awareness: On the nature of the relation.
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: soc-psy
full_text_status: public
abstract: This article raises the question of how we acquire self-information through self-talk, i.e., of how self-talk mediates self-awareness. It is first suggested that two
social mechanisms leading to self-awareness could be reproduced by self-talk: engaging in dialogues with ourselves, in which we talk to fictive persons, would permit
an internalization of others' perspectives; and addressing comments to ourselves about ourselves, as others do toward us, would allow an acquisition of self-information. Secondly, it is proposed that self-observation(self-awareness) is possible only if there exists a distance between the individual and any potentially
observable self-aspect; self-talk, because it conveys self-information under a different form (i.e., words), would create a redundancy -- and with it, a wedge -- within
the self
date: 1993
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Mind and Behavior
volume: 14
number: 3
pagerange: 223-234
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Morin, Alain  (1993) Self-talk and self-awareness: On the nature of the relation.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/2551/1/Relation.PDF