Conditioning and Generalization of Positive Self-Evaluations in a Partially Structured Diagnostic Interview
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 17 (2) , 459-464
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1965.17.2.459
Abstract
Ss were asked to discuss certain characteristics of themselves in a diagnostic interview setting. Experimental Ss were provided sham GSR feedback on the insightfulness of their self-descriptions. The feedback was actually controlled by the interviewer. Experimental Ss were rewarded for positive and punished for negative self-describing. Control Ss received no feedback. Experimental Ss were found to be reliably higher than controls in the proportion of positive self-descriptions during the interview and in favorable self-evaluations on a post-test measure of generalization.Keywords
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