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병뚜껑을 따거나 짐을 들고 갈 때, 혹은 누군가와 팔씨름을 할 때 우리는 손을 힘껏 쥐게 됩니다. 이처럼 손을 쥐는 힘을 악력이라고 합니다. 악력은 일상생활에서 가장 흔하게 사용하는 근력 중 하나로 개인의 전반적인 건강 수준을 가늠해 보는 지표로 사용되기도 합니다. 이 때문에 악력에 관한 많은 연구들이 수행되었습니다. 악력에 관한 연구를 통해 밝혀진 사실은 악력이 높을수록 신체적, …

노력해야 정체성이 생길까? 정체성이 생겨야 노력할까?

닭이 먼저냐 달걀이 먼저냐라는 질문은 늘 사람들의 흥미를 끈다. 심리학에도 이런 질문이 많고, ‘노력해야 정체성이 생길까? 정체성이 생겨야 노력할까?’도 그런 질문 중 하나다. 이에 대한 심리학적 연구의 답은 무엇일까? 심리학은 전자를 지지한다. 타고난 정체성이 있어야 노력하는게 아니라, 노력해야 정체성이라는 것도 생기고, 노력해야 열정이 생긴다. 타고난 특기적성이나 흥미가 있어야 공부하게 되는 것이 아니라, 공부해야 적성이 생기고 …

정체성과 열정은 개발, 발전, 심화시키는 것

직업적 정체성, 열정, 흥미, 적성은 찾는 게 아니라, 개발하고 발전시키며, 심화시킬 수 있고 심지어 변화하고 진보한다는 현대 심리학 이론을 체계적인 연구를 통해 밝힌 연구 논문이다. 직업적 정체성과 흥미나 열정은 보물찾기가 아니다. 이 모든 것은 학습과 경험의 축적을 통해 만들어가는 것이다. O’Keefe, P. A., Dweck, C. S., & Walton, G. M. (2018). Implicit theories of interest: …

Karniol, R. (2003). Egocentrism versus protocentrism: The status of self in social prediction. Psychological Review, 110(3), 564-580.

In this article, the author discusses the limitations of the egocentric view of self in which self serves as an automatic filter, inhibiting access to alternative representations of others’ thoughts and feelings. The author then outlines a protocentric model, the self-as-distinct (SAD) model, in which generic representations of prototypic others serve as the default; representations …

McFarland, C., & Miller, D. T. (1990). Judgments of self-other similarity: Just like other people, only more so. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 16(3), 475-484.

The present research explored the possibility that the false consensus and false uniqueness effects can occur simultaneously within a single context. Specifically, it was hypothesized that individuals would overestimate the number of others who would experience the same type of emotional reaction as they did and yet believe that their reactions would be stronger than …

Karniol, R., & Koren, L. (1987). How would you feel? Children& #39;s inferences regarding their own and others& #39; affective reactions. Cognitive Development, 2(3), 271-278.

Kindergarten children listened to stories about emotion-eliciting events and were asked to make inferences about either their own or the story target’s affective reactions to these events. They were also asked to justify their responses. Subjects in the self-affect condition made fewer negative affective inferences, offered more coping responses for transforming negative situations into more …

Castro-Schilo, Laura & Fredrickson, Barbara & Mungas, Dan. (2018). Association of Positive Affect with Cognitive Health and Decline for Elder Mexican Americans. Journal of Happiness Studies.

The goal of this study was to investigate the linkages of positive affect (PA) with cognitive health and its decline among elder Mexican Americans. We conducted secondary analysis of longitudinal data from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging. We used the structural equation modeling framework to achieve three specific aims: (1) identify a valid …

Walton, D., & Bathurst, J. (1998). An exploration of the perceptions of the average driver& #39;s speed compared to perceived driver safety and driving skill.

This study investigates the self-enhancement bias in driver attitudes, the finding that drivers rate themselves better than the average driver on safety and skill perceptions (Svenson, 1978Svenson, 1981; McCormick et al., 1986). A sample of 86 New Zealand drivers were asked their perceptions of their own and others’ speeds in two conditions, 50 km/h and 100 km/h. …

Pronin, E., Lin, D. Y., & Ross, L. (2002). The bias blind spot: Perceptions of bias in self versus others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(3), 369-381.

Three studies suggest that individuals see the existence and operation of cognitive and motivational biases much more in others than in themselves. Study 1 provides evidence from three surveys that people rate themselves as less subject to various biases than the “average American,” classmates in a seminar, and fellow airport travelers. Data from the third …