Effects of self-awareness on self-disclosure.
This study assessed the effects of self-awareness enhanced by a mirror on self-disclosure when another person was present. Subjects disclosed more intimately when looking into a mirror than when no mirror was present. Moreover, 40 men disclosed longer than 40 women, women had a higher rate of self-referenced thought units than men, and questions of medium intimacy elicited more intimate disclosures than questions of low intimacy.
Kalin
L R
LR
University of Arkansas, Department of Psychology, Fayetteville 72701.
Schuldt
W J
WJ
D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012931:Social Environment