title: Inner speech as a cognitive process mediating self-consciousness and inhibiting self-deception.
abstract: The cognitive processes which mediate self-consciousness are unknown. although Morin and others have suggested that inner speech may mediate self-consciousness. We developed a questionnaire which measures the extent to which one talks to oneself about oneself. As expected, the correlation between inner speech and self-consciousness was significant. A German version of the 1979 self-deception questionnaire by Sackeim and Gur correlated negatively with the scores on inner speech, suggesting the validity of the questionnaire. We also replicated the negative association between depression and self-deception in a different culture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Psychology, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Siegrist
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012649:Self Concept; D013850:Thinking