Samoświadomość jako moderator wpływu dokonanej autoprezentacji na percepcję siebie po podjęciu decyzji w grze „dyktator”

Research shows that under certain conditions even forced self-presentation may lead to changes in self-knowledge. Several factors play an important role in this relationship, the level of self-consciousness being one of them. The purpose of our experiment was to test whether the self-presentation made while playing the dictator game (DG) would change self-perception in a direction consistent with such self-presentation. The participants were asked to behave (1) as altruistic people (a trait associated with behaviour in the DG), (2) as communicative people (unrelated to DG behavior), and (3) in a natural way (control group). The results show that the people from the “altruism group” rated themselves the most altruistic of the three groups. The higher the level of prosocial behaviour grew in the DG, the stronger was the internalisation of that trait. We also demonstrated that the internalisation of prosocial behaviour was stronger when the level of public self-consciousness was higher. These results indicate the important role self-consciousness plays in the context of changes in perception of self, as self-presentation would suggest.