Thinking about Ourselves and Others: Self-Monitoring and Social Knowledge.

Snyder, Mark; Cantor, Nancy

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Publication Date: 1980-Aug

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Thinking about Ourselves and Others: Self-Monitoring and Social Knowledge.

Snyder, Mark; Cantor, Nancy

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v39 n2 p222-34 Aug 1980

Investigates the hypothesis that high self-monitoring individuals are particularly knowledgeable about others who are prototypes of a wide variety of trait domains and that low self-monitoring individuals are particularly knowledgeable about their own characteristic traits, attitudes and dispositions. (Author/SS)

Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Individual Differences, Personality Traits, Social Behavior, Social Characteristics

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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