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| results from literal seperations from others, such as when a person has limited social contacts or does not recienve and invitation to a gathering and people can feel existentially isolated even among close friends |
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| feelings that result from the realization that we cannot ever know how another person experiences the world and that we cannot get insite another persons's mind and they cannot get into ours |
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| reulsts when people lose touch with their own private experiences as one can feel alone in one's experiences without dissassociated and one can disassociate without feeling entirely alone |
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| Two Needs That Existential Isolation Makes Difficult to Satisfy |
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| the need to know and the need for interpersonal connectedness |
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| what we think of ourselves, how we feel about ourselves, what we know about our behaviors and is what we would see in our reflection in the mirror |
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| self-as-Subject, always present as we are no longer I's upon reflection of the self, FLOW, active agent, doer |
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| moments when people feel as though their self-as-subject merges with that of at least one other person as they believe they and that other person are sharing the same experience |
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| I-Sharing Provides Us With? |
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| the closest feeling of existential connectedness possible |
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| What Threat Does I-Sharing Eliminate? |
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| eliminates the threat to the needs for belief validation and connectedness posed by feelings of existential isolation |
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| Link Between Who We Are Drawn Towards and I-Sharing |
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| people tend to believe that people with whom they share important aspects of their Me (race, ethnicity, age, political ideology, life experiences), will i-share with them at important moments |
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| Me Serves As A ___________To I |
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| proxy in that people favor those with whom they share e's over those with whom they do not, unless they recieve more compelling evidence that they do not actually share i's with a me-sharer |
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| Given Fact of Existential Islation, How Do People Convince Themselves They Know Anything At All? |
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| we look to the extent that others agree with our conceptions of ourselves and the world around us to feel that we know so we seek out those that will be most likely to validate our perspectives and beliefs via i-sharing |
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| Two Things We Gain From Finding People Who See Us Similarly To How We See Ourselves |
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| confidnece in the validey of our self-conceptions which makes us feel "right" and as a result bolster self-esteem and protect is in that way |
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| First Impressions Study Example - Preference for Me-Sharers as Result of Liklihood They Will Also Be I-Sharers in First Day of Class Scenario Where Participants Must Give Introductions - Independent and Dependent Variables |
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IV 1 - extent to which particpant shares me with regard to two other intros (same gender and same hometown, same gender from another country, same gender who is fan of band participant loves or hates)
IV 2 - extent to which participant shares I (Me-sharer loves or hates band, Non Me-sharer loves or hates band)
DV - extent to which participant likes me-sharer or non me-sharer |
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| First Impressions Study Example - Preference for Me-Sharers as Result of Liklihood They Will Also Be I-Sharers in First Day of Class Scenario Where Participants Must Give Introductions - Results |
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| when i-sharer is non-me-sharer, participants preferred non me sharer to me-sharer suggesting that participants likeing for poeple in scenario depended on whether they i-shared and not on whether they me-shared |
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| Online I-Sharing Through Free Association Study Example - People high in Emotional Reliance have Drive Towards Interpersonal Closeness, Depend More on Other for Confirmation of Thier Conception of Reality, More Attracted To I-Sharer - Independent and Dependent Variables |
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IV 1 - exchange with nonexistent other online either contained either me-info or i-info
IV 2 - me-info condition recieved and provided i am statements about self and i-info condition received and provided free associations to series of word-stem completions
IV 3 - Nonexisting Others' Responses (immediately after i-info find other agrees 70 or 30 of the time)
DV - Degree Participant Liked Other
Note: All particpants engaged in meaure of ER before experiment |
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| Online I-Sharing Through Free Association Study Example - People high in Emotional Reliance have Drive Towards Interpersonal Closeness, Depend More on Other for Confirmation of Thier Conception of Reality, More Attracted To I-Sharer - Results |
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| similarity and emotional reliance had no effect on liking among those who recieved me-info but among those who recieved i-infor, low emotional reliant participants exhibit equal levels of liking for partner across both similartiy conditions and those with higer emotional reliance liked more similar i-info sharing condition |
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