Self-awareness & causal attribution - Thomas Shelley Duval

Self-awareness - the ability to recognize one's
existence - is one of the most important variables in
psychology. Without self-awareness, people would be unable to
self-reflect, recognize differences between the self and others, or
compare themselves with internalized standards. Social, clinical, and
personality psychologists have recognized the significance of
self-awareness in human functioning, and have conducted much research
on how it participates in everyday life and in psychological
dysfunctions.

Self-Awareness & Causal Attribution: A Dual-Systems Theory
presents a new theory of how self-awareness affects thought, feeling,
and action. Based on experimental social-psychological
research, the authors describe how several interacting cognitive
systems determine the links between self-awareness and organized
activity. This theory addresses when people become self-focused, how
people internalize and change personal standards, when people approach
or avoid troubling situations, and the nature of self-evaluation.
Special emphasis is given to causal attribution, the process of
perceiving causality.

Self-Awareness & Causal Attribution will be useful to social,
clinical, and personality psychologists, as well as to anyone
interested in how the self relates to motivation and emotion.