title: Thinking about oneself and others: the relational-interdependent self-construal and social cognition.
abstract: These studies focus on the relational-interdependent self-construal's association with implicit or indirect cognitive processes. In the relational-interdependent self-construal, the self is defined largely in terms of close relationships, resulting in variation in self-related processes. In Studies 1 and 2, the relational self-construal was associated with positive implicit evaluations of relational concepts and with tightly organized cognitive networks of relational terms. Studies 3 and 4 demonstrated that this self-construal was associated with memory for and implicit organization of relational information. In Studies 5 and 6, the relational self-construal was positively related to the degree to which participants described themselves and a friend similarly. The implications of the relational self-construal for theories of relationship cognition and for other self-related cognitive processes are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, USA. scross@iastate.edu
authors.forename: Susan E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Cross
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: Jonathan S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Gore
mesh_terms: D001244:Association; D001245:Association Learning; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology; D011939:Mental Recall; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012928:Social Desirability; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D014481:United States; D014936:Word Association Tests