The Virtual Self and Possible Immersive Consequences of Uncharacteristic Self-Presentation in the Virtual Environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Eugene Y. Kukshinov
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Possible Selves ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Simulated Environment ◽  
Real Behavior ◽  
Self Schema

The author employs a theoretic construct based on self-presentation approach and a self-concept which is taken as a complex structure of self-schema and possible selves. Within the framework of this model (or “self-matrix”), self-presentation is observed under the conditions of virtual reality, in which the usual ties between various aspects of one's self may be lost, producing uncharacteristic performance. The author claims that immersive interaction within the simulated environment of virtual reality may be experienced to such an extent that new properties of the self are obtained, bringing a change in real behavior. The resultant performance might contradict existing social circumstances and vice versa.

scholarly journals Older Women and Mammography Screening Behavior: Do Possible Selves Contribute?

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret E. A. Black ◽  
Karen F. Stein ◽  
Carol J. Loveland-Cherry
Keyword(s):  
Mammography Screening ◽  
Possible Selves ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Clinical Breast Examination ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Screening Behavior

This study sought to explore the contribution of the self-concept to older women’s adherence to regular mammography screening behavior. The PRECEDE and health belief model concepts were incorporated with a measure of the women’s future selves to determine whether the self-concept adds to our ability to predict screening. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 210 community-dwelling women ages 50 to 75 years, recruited from urban and rural women’s groups. Logistic regression analyses revealed that predictors of adherence were clinical breast examination, physician recommendation, age, barriers, benefits, feared health-related possible self, and self-efficacy in the feared domain. The addition of the self measures significantly improved the overall fit of the model. Implications for theory development, practice, and future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Practices of self-presentation in the Internet space: forms and trends

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
K. V. Nastoiashcha
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Internet Resource ◽  
Space Forms ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Public Consumption

Due to modern mobility, as well as the specifics of means of communication there is a large number of people who follow the person and form opinions about him or her, relying mainly on the value of the material plan (to some extent, also on education) that the person can demonstrate, knowing about the tracking. Individualization, as a globalization trend, puts the demand of a person - to live original. Therefore, the actions that are aimed at forming an image, are based primarily on the self-presentation. Modern person is being disconnected from traditional social ties, which is facilitated by changes in the opportunities of social communication. The modern person lacks the communication face to face, but they are replaced by Internet communications. The social network has evolved into a media environment, which is an instrument for self-development, expression, and the design of personal identity. Although the tools for presenting their personality in social networks are still unified and have limitations, they allow the person to create quite a lot of individual images, depending on what the user wants to achieve and how rich his imagination is. The identity is changed, the practice of the self-presentation is changed - a person begins to form his or her own ‘I’ on the basis of the seen, borrowing or copying the images of others (while consuming new media products). Virtual communication also has a number of specific features. Among them there are a large selection of «tools» which can help to form personal identity, lack of physical contact, participants of such communication may not know each other. It gives huge opportunities for presenting yourself to a «virtual environment» and other users of an internet resource. Selfization becomes the popular practice of self-presentation thanks to photographs. Through selfies the person creates and improves his image for public consumption. «Virtual» self-presentation strategies that shape certain images can be different - depending on what the user prefers. Above mentioned strategies are based on the formation of images that appeal to the public: knowledgeable in their business, successful in the profession, sociable, such that belongs to a certain group, good in the physical plane, etc.

Metacognitive Knowledge and the Self as Socially Distanced Online Learner: A Virtual Reality Assisted Analysis of Academic Self-Concept

2021 ◽  
pp. 004723952199977
Author(s):  
Damian J. Rivers ◽  
Michael Vallance ◽  
Michiko Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Metacognitive Knowledge ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

With online learning solutions responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic, it is important for educational technologists and other practitioners to understand how learners are experiencing the demands of socially distanced online learning and how they conceive of themselves within distant spaces and digital communities. Research into the metacognitions of learners provides a non-technocratic focal point through which such information can be extracted. Framing learner self-beliefs as a form of metacognitive knowledge, the current article presents a virtual-reality-assisted thematic analysis into the self-appraisals of 210 socially distanced online learners at a Japanese university. The study focuses on the discursive rationalizations expressed in service of the academic self-concept. Four themes were identified in the data: formal assessment, affect and emotion, self-regulation, and transformative awareness. Such research provides educators with a platform for pedagogical intervention and course design considerations relative to the challenges of the online learning experience.

The Culturally Situated Self

2019 ◽  
pp. 538-585
Author(s):  
Amir Rosenmann ◽  
Jenny Kurman
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Cross Cultural Research ◽  
Psychological Inquiry ◽  
The Impact

The impact of culture on the self, the most fundamental unit of psychological inquiry, has captivated scholarly interest for decades. In this chapter, the authors review strands from this prolific body of cross-cultural research, sampled along several lines. They plot a rough trajectory from the early discussions of cultural forms of self-construal to emergent research in online presentation and consumer selfhood. They then illustrate culture’s profound effects on the cognitive, affective, and behavioral facets of the self by reviewing cultural variations in individuals’ self-concept, self-regard, and self-presentation. This cultural divergence notwithstanding, they argue for the universality of basic self-processes. Specifically, the authors claim that the need for positive self-regard and the motivation for self-enhancement exist in all cultural contexts, even as their cultural manifestations radically differ. The chapter concludes with an exploration of self-psychology in the current globalizing age, where cultures around the world are reformatted as consumer cultures.

scholarly journals Behavioural and ERP evidence of the self-advantage of online self-relevant information

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gengfeng Niu ◽  
Liangshuang Yao ◽  
Fanchang Kong ◽  
Yijun Luo ◽  
Changying Duan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Online Information ◽  
The Real ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
P300 Potential

AbstractThe present study examined whether individuals experienced the same cognitive advantage for online self-relevant information (nickname) as that experienced for information encountered in real life (real name) through two experiments at both the behavioural and neural levels (event-related potential, ERP). The results indicated that individuals showed the same cognitive advantage for nicknames and real names. At the behavioural level, a nickname was detected as quickly as the real name, and both were detected faster than a famous name; at the neural level, the P300 potential elicited by one’s nickname was similar to that elicited by one’s real name, and both the P300 amplitudes and latencies were larger and more prolonged than those elicited by other name stimuli. These results not only confirmed the cognitive advantage for one’s own nickname and indicated that this self-advantage can be extended to online information, but also indicated that the virtual self could be integrated into the self and further expanded individuals’ self-concept.

Creating Diderot unities – quest for possible selves?

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Davis ◽  
Gary Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Possible Selves ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Impulse Purchases ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Impulse Purchase ◽  
Concept Theory ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper tries to draw links between the creation of new Diderot unities (products consumed in a group and that have an internal consistency based on lifestyle) with “impulse purchases” as key departure products. A study, using exploratory in‐depth interviews, is reported. Common themes are drawn from the interviews to serve as possible identifying elements of the phenomenon. Emotive and cognitive themes are identified and are offered as a starting point for further research into such product unities. The self‐concept theory of “possible selves” is offered as one possible explanation that determines when an“impulse purchase” is a key departure product for a new Diderot unity.

The self-schema and addictive behaviors: Studies of alcoholic patients

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Tarquinio ◽  
Gustave Nicolas Fischer ◽  
Aurélie Gauchet ◽  
Jacques Perarnaud
Keyword(s):  
Decision Time ◽  
The Self ◽  
Addictive Behaviors ◽  
Social Judgments ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Self Schema ◽  
Description Task ◽  
Positive Traits ◽  
First Interview

This study deals with the sociocognitive organization of the self-schema in alcoholic patients. It was aimed at understanding how the self-schema takes shape within the framework of social judgments known to be determinants of personality. Alcoholic subjects were interviewed twice, once during their first consultation for treatment and then again four months later after completion of treatment. Our approach was derived directly from the methodology used by Markus (1977) and Clemmey & Nicassio (1997) in their studies on the self-schema. The subjects had to perform three tasks that required manipulating personality traits with positive and negative connotations (a self-description task in which decision time was measured, an autobiographical task, and a recall task). The results of the first interview showed that 1. in their self-descriptions, alcoholics took more time than control subjects both to accept positive traits and to reject negative ones; 2. unlike control subjects, alcoholics considered more negative traits to be self-descriptive than positive traits, and 3. unlike controls, alcoholics recalled more negative traits than positive ones. By the second interview, the results for the alcoholic subjects on the autobiographical and recall tasks had changed: 1. they now described themselves more positively and less negatively than on the first meeting; 2. they recalled a marginally greater number of positive traits and a significantly smaller number of negative traits, and 3. the differences between the alcoholics and controls indicated an improvement in the alcoholics' self-perceptions.

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