Objective Self-Awareness Theory: Recent Progress and Enduring Problems

By Paul J Silvia, S. Duval. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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From At Risk to At Promise: Developing Scholar Identities Among Black Males (2006, background): “Self-awareness is an open, honest appraisal and understanding of one’s strengths and limitations (Cooley, 1902; Silvia & Duval, 2001).”
A New Look at Humility: Exploring the Humility Concept and Its Role in Socialized Charismatic Leadership (2010, neutral): “Objective self-awareness theory stipulates that one compares oneself against a standard (Silvia & Duval, 2001).”
Self-Awareness Part 1: Definition, Measures, Effects, Functions, and Antecedents (2011, methodology): “More recent work conducted by Silvia and Duval (2001) further qualifies the self-evaluation process outlined above.”
Effort Mobilization when the Self is Involved: Some Lessons from the Cardiovascular System (2010, background): “…self-awareness theory posits that directing individuals’ attention to themselves results in a state of self-evaluation (Duval & Wicklund, 1972; Silvia & Duval, 2001; Wicklund, 1975): When being aware of themselves, people compare their actual behavior with the relevant situational standards.”
Enacting the ‘true self’: Towards a theory of embodied authentic leadership (2010, background): “(1988, p. 45) Wilson quotes Shibutani (1961) to explicate this point more fully: All somatic experiences are somehow related to one's conception of himself (sic) and there is continuity in his life to the extent that he can organise them into some kind of unit.”
Frequent Social Comparisons and Destructive Emotions and Behaviors: The Dark Side of Social Comparisons (2006, background): “Frequent social comparisons should therefore be associated with objective self-awareness (Duval & Wicklund, 1972), a state in which one’s attention is focused on one’s self as an object, and indeed they are (Silvia & Duval, 2001).”
Evaluating self-reflection and insight as self-conscious traits. (2011, background): “The capacity to reflect on one’s thoughts, emotions, and actions is central to self-regulation, self-evaluation, and self-criticism (Carver, 2003; Duval & Silvia, 2001).”
On Introspection and Self-Perception: Does Self-Focused Attention Enable Accurate Self-Knowledge? (2001, background): “As discussed earlier, self-focus motivates people to adhere to standards and norms (Silvia & Duval, 2001).”
Possible links between self-awareness and inner speech: Theoretical background, underlying mechanisms, and empirical evidence (2004, background): “The main short-term effects (e.g., self-evaluation) and long-term consequences (e.g., self-concept formation) of situational self-awareness have been identified (see Carver, 2002; Silvia and Duval, 2001 ).”
Gifted Black Males: Understanding and Decreasing Barriers to Achievement and Identity (2009, background): “It is an open, honest appraisal and understanding of one’s strengths and limitations (Cooley, 1902; Silvia & Duval, 2001).”
The effects of mindfulness and self-consciousness on persistence (2009, background): “In the self-regulation literature, self-awareness reflects a critical or evaluative state that automatically leads to comparison of the self against standards (Silvia & Duval, 2001) and efforts to change behavior.”
. (2005, background): “…behavior (POB), and positive psychological capital (Luthans, Luthans, & Luthans, 2004), suggests that these positive psychological capacities have theoretical and psychometric support for being state-like (open to development and change) and thus can play a crucial role in developing…”
Defining Self-Awareness in the Context of Adult Development: A Systematic Literature Review (2021, background): “Linked to this is the proposition 144 Journal of Management Education 46(1) that self-awareness could be an aversive state, because if a discrepancy arises between self-perception and the self-developed standards, a negative state of mind would be likely to occur (Silvia & Duval, 2001).”
Be Aware to Care: Public Self-Awareness Leads to a Reversal of the Bystander Effect. (2012, background): “Although they are concerned about what other bystanders think of them, they are the focal point of their own attention (see, Silvia & Duval, 2001).”