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| Author: | Hinkley, K. Andersen, S. M. |
| Title: | The working self-concept in transference : significant-other activation and self change |
| Journal: | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
1996 : DEC, VOL. 71:6, p. 1279-1295 |
| Index terms: | SELF-DEVELOPMENT ATTITUDES CHANGE WORK |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This research tested the hypothesis that changes in the working self-concept emerge in transference, defined as the activation and application of a significant-other representation to a new person and indexed by relevant inferences and memory. In an idiographic-nomothetic design, participants learned of a target person who resembled their own or a yoked participant's positively or negatively toned significant other. Results replicated the basic memory effect verifying transference. As predicted, the working self-concept changed in the transference condition. After learning about the new person, participants' freely listed self features shifted; the working self-concept became more infused with aspects of the self reflecting the self when with this significant other. |
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