To satisfy the need in personality research for factorially univocal measures of each of the 5
domains that subsume most English-language terms for personality-traits, new sets of Big …

Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest
can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition …

This article discusses the manipulation and measurement of levels of situational self-focus,
which is generally labeled “self-awareness.” A new scale was developed to quantify levels …

Despite growing evidence that depression is linked with self-focused attention, little is known
about how depressed individuals become self-focused or, more generally, about what …

0 e The contributors to this book review our current knowledge of context effects in survey
research, psychological testing, and social judgement. Drawing on recent developments in …

Although it has often been implied that self-focused attention plays a mediating role in
performance degradation under stress, the assumption that stress will evoke self-focus has …

Does self-awareness amplify or dampen the intensity of emotional experience? Early
research argued that self-awareness makes emotional states salient, resulting in greater …

Public self-consciousness is a major aspect of self-attention, concerned with attention to the
self as a social object. In this study of American adults, public self-consciousness was tested …

Self-focused attention is difficult to measure. Two studies developed an implicit measure of
self-focus based on word recognition latencies. Self-focused attention activates self-content …

The effect of eye contact on self-awareness was investigated with implicit measures based
on the use of first-person singular pronouns in sentences. The measures were proposed to …