Topic 1 - self other intersubjectivity

Mirror recognition test - Gallup 1970

• mark placed on chimps body where they can’t see it to see if they understand the self

Introspection

• process when one observes and examines one’s internal states

Johansson et al 2005

• choice blindness study

• Asking attractiveness then swapped pics when explain to explain

• 73% didn’t notice

Macrae et al 1984

• Stereotyping skinhead experiment

Self construal

• Morf and Koole 2015

• Motivated by how one would like to see themselves

Self perception theory - Ben 1972

• Infer states by observing their own behaviour

Social comparison theory - Festinger 1954

• evaluate ourselves by comparing to others

• Klein 1997 - scores

Self expansion theory - Aron 1995

• become ourselves through relationships

Generalised other

• guiding concept in knowing what to do with yourself

Gillespie and Cornish 2010

• variety of possible relations between people’s perspectives

Gillespie and Zittoun 2010

• shaped by social situations, groups, norms and cultures

Heasman and Gillespie 2019

• how people create a shared understanding