Three studies investigated whether self-affirmation can proceed without awareness, whether people are aware of the influence of experimental self-affirmations, and whether such awareness facilitates or undermines the self-affirmation process. The authors found that self-affirmation effects could proceed without awareness, as implicit self-affirming primes (utilizing sentence-unscrambling proced...

This paper describes the self-awareness and self-control mechanisms of a general-purpose intelligent system, NARS. The system perceives its internal environment basically in the same way as how it perceives its external environment, though the sensors involved are completely different. NARS uses a “self” concept to organize its relevant beliefs, tasks, and operations. The concept has an innate ...

The present research examined when self-evaluation influences creativity. Based on objective self-awareness theory, the authors predicted that feeling able to improve would buffer against the detrimental effects of self-evaluation on creativity. Two experiments manipulated self-evaluation (varying self-awareness, Study 1; providing objective performance standards, Study 2) and perceived ability...

background: while young men are at higher risk of developing testicular cancer (tc), testicular-self examination (tse) is an easy, cost effectiveness method to early detection of this disease. the aim of the study was to investigate medical sciences student`s awareness, attitude and self-efficacy about tc and tse. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out among full time young student...

The CoDa approach. Self-adaptive systems are advocated as a solution to the problem of mastering the complexity of modern software systems and the continuous evolution of the environment where they operate. Self-adaptation is considered a fundamental feature of autonomic systems, one that can specialise to several other self-* properties, like self-configuration and self-optimisation. Should th...

in this research 600 staff of an educational office (distric seven) were being studied before and after they were educated about breast self-examination. necessary information was gathered before and after they were educated through questionnaires. the result of the study showed that the average scores of their awareness before and after they were educated was 42.3 and 44.2, respectively. hence...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE Impaired self-awareness following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can reduce the effectiveness of rehabilitation, resulting in poorer outcomes. However, little is understood about how the multi-dimensional aspects of self-awareness may differentially change with recovery and impact outcome. Thus, this study examined four self-awareness variables represented in the Dynamic Compr...