Author： Swann William B.
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
E-ISSN： 1572-0381|6|1|69-83
ISSN： 1572-0373
Source： Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, Vol.6, Iss.1, 2005-01, pp. : 69-83
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Abstract
Identity negotiation refers to the processes through which perceivers and targets come to agreements regarding the identities that targets are to assume in the interaction. Whereas past work has focused on the contribution of perceivers to the identity negotiation process, I emphasize the contribution of targets to this process. Specifically, I examine the tendency for targets to work to bring perceivers to verify their self-views. For example, people prefer and seek self-verifying evaluations from others, including their spouses and employers — even when this means attaining evaluations that validate negative self-views. Moreover, receiving self-verification has adaptive consequences, even improving the performance of workers in diverse groups. Some boundary conditions of self-verification strivings as well as implications for making of minds are discussed.
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