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| Title |
This Examined Life: The Upside of Self-Knowledge for Interpersonal Relationships
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0069605 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Elizabeth R. Tenney, Simine Vazire, Matthias R. Mehl |
| Abstract |
Although self-knowledge is an unquestioned good in many philosophical traditions, testing this assumption scientifically has posed a challenge because of the difficulty of measuring individual differences in self-knowledge. In this study, we used a novel, naturalistic, and objective criterion to determine individuals' degree of self-knowledge. Specifically, self-knowledge was measured as the congruence between people's beliefs about how they typically behave and their actual behavior as measured with unobtrusive audio recordings from daily life. We found that this measure of self-knowledge was positively correlated with informants' perceptions of relationship quality. These results suggest that self-knowledge is interpersonally advantageous. Given the importance of relationships for our social species, self-knowledge could have great social value that has heretofore been overlooked. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Canada | 2 | 12% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 6% |
| Philippines | 1 | 6% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 8 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 88% |
| Scientists | 2 | 12% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 63 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 60 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 13% |
| Researcher | 8 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 10% |
| Other | 13 | 21% |
| Unknown | 9 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 36 | 57% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 3% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 2% |
| Philosophy | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 11% |
| Unknown | 11 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 47. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 August 2023.
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#7,057
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#320
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