The experience of self in memory and imagination

记忆和想象中的自我体验

基本信息

批准号：
6585900
负责人：
LISA K LIBBY
金额：
$ 3.11万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2003-03-23 至 2004-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by candidate): This research project investigates the role that experiential aspects of memory and imagination play in defining explicit beliefs about the self over time. Some autobiographical memories have a very immediate quality in which one relives past experience; in contrast, other memories have a distant quality in which one feels disconnected from a past self. The same phenomena can be observed when thinking about future selves. The first set of studies involves autobiographical memory and tests two main hypotheses: 1) people feel psychologically closer to past selves when there is a match between past behavior and present psychological state than when there is a mismatch, 2) these feelings of psychological distance influence explicit judgments of change in the self over time, independent of top-down influences of abstract theories about the self over time. The second set of studies tests the same hypotheses with regard to imagined future selves. In therapeutic contexts people are trying to change themselves for the better. If the experiential aspects play a fundamental role in the self-concept, then true change in the self should be accompanied by feelings of psychological distance from the negative past self. The third set of studies uses behavioral measures in order to test whether subjective reports of distance from past selves is predictive of actual behavior in the present.

描述（由候选人提供）：该研究项目调查了记忆和想象力的体验方面在定义关于自我的明确信念方面所发挥的作用。有些自传体记忆具有非常直接的性质，可以使人重温过去的经历；相比之下，其他记忆则具有一种遥远的品质，让人感觉与过去的自己脱节。当思考未来的自己时，可以观察到同样的现象。第一组研究涉及自传体记忆，并测试了两个主要假设：1）当过去的行为与当前的心理状态匹配时，人们在心理上感觉更接近过去的自己，2）这些心理距离影响的感觉随着时间的推移，对自我变化的明确判断，独立于关于自我的抽象理论随时间自上而下的影响。第二组研究针对想象中的未来自我测试了相同的假设。在治疗背景下，人们试图让自己变得更好。如果体验方面在自我概念中发挥着根本作用，那么自我的真正改变应该伴随着与过去消极的自我的心理距离感。第三组研究使用行为测量来测试与过去自我的距离的主观报告是否可以预测当前的实际行为。