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      The influence of cognitive load on self-presentation: Can cognitive busyness help as well as harm social performance?

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      Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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          Extra cognitive loads can hinder challenging self-presentations by usurping needed cognitive resources but also may sometimes improve them by shifting attention away from negative self-preoccupation. In Study 1, extraverts and introverts participated in an interview in which they presented themselves as either extraverted or introverted. Congruent self-presentations, which should be cognitively nondemanding, were unaffected by a cognitive busyness manipulation (rehearsing an 8-digit number). However, incongruent self-presentations were affected by busyness. Busyness decreased the effectiveness of extraverts who tried to appear introverted but increased the effectiveness of introverts who tried to appear extraverted. Study 2 found that introverts, who also tend to be socially anxious, reported less public self-consciousness and fewer negative self-focused thoughts when they were busy than when they were not busy.

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          Journal
          Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
          Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
          American Psychological Association (APA)
          1939-1315
          0022-3514
          June 2000
          June 2000
          : 78
          : 6
          : 1092-1108
          Article
          10.1037/0022-3514.78.6.1092
          10870911
          c3a75be7-4d33-4b8f-b337-5158bb18b71a
          © 2000
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