Representing Oneself and Others.
Experimental psychology November 1, 2018 Bernhard Hommel 44 citations
The self-concept emerges from active exploration of one's physical and social environment during infancy and childhood, as well as through cultural learning, and its main purpose is social communication rather than online action control. Self- and other-representations can overlap to the degree that they share features, especially when those features are particularly relevant or salient and the individual is under a particular metacontrol state. This theoretical framework, inspired by the Theory of Event Coding, explains how people represent themselves and others, how these representations interact, and what consequences this has.