On Introspection and Self-Perception: Does Self-Focused Attention Enable Accurate Self-Knowledge?

175 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Effort Mobilization when the Self is Involved: Some Lessons from the Cardiovascular System (2010, background): “Beside the general validity problems of self-reports (see Silvia & Gendolla, 2001; Wilson, 2002), this is particularly problematic for self-reported effort for difficult tasks, that is, task for which success is unlikely.”
Discernment and creativity: How well can people identify their most creative ideas? (2008, background): “Accuracy has been a pest in many areas of psychology, such as the accuracy of beliefs about the self (Silvia & Gendolla, 2001), the accuracy of impressions of other people (Funder, 1995), and the accuracy of judgments of one's future feelings (Gilbert & Ebert, 2002), but creativity research has not…”
Self-awareness and emotional intensity (2002, background): “Yet this seems unlikely, given that making an emotion salient need not make it more intense (Silvia & Gendolla, 2001); this is considered in greater detail in the General Discussion.”
Self-Awareness Part 1: Definition, Measures, Effects, Functions, and Antecedents (2011, background): “In short, it seems that self-aware individuals know themselves better (Turner, unpublished data) – although this conclusion has been questioned on conceptual grounds by Silvia and Gendolla (2001).”