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The Self Course: Lessons Learned from Students’ Weekly Questions
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: Received: 5 May 2023 / Approved: 6 May 2023 / Online: 6 May 2023 (09:32:55 CEST)
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Morin, A. The Self Course: Lessons Learned from Students’ Weekly Questions. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 525. Morin, A. The Self Course: Lessons Learned from Students’ Weekly Questions. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 525.
Abstract
In this paper I tentatively answer 50 questions sampled from a pool of over 10,000 weekly questions formulated by students in a course entitled “The Self”. The questions pertain to various key topics about self-processes, such as self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-regulation, self-talk, self-esteem, and self-regulation. The students’ weekly questions and their answers highlight what is currently know about the self. Answers to the student questions also allow for the identification of some recurrent lessons about the self. Some of these lessons include: all self-processes are interconnected (e.g., prospection depends on autobiography), self-terms must be properly defined (e.g., self-rumination and worry are not the same), inner speech plays an important role in self-processes, controversies are numerous (are animals self-aware?), measurement issues abound (e.g., self-reflection as an operationalization of self-awareness), deficits in some self-processes can have devastating effects (e.g., self-regulatory deficits may lead to financial problems), and there are lots of unknowns about the self (e.g., gender differences in Theory-of-Mind).
Keywords
self; course; self-reflection; self-rumination; self-knowledge; mindfulness; prospection; autobiography; self-regulation; self-recognition; self-esteem; culture; inner speech; traumatic brain injury; Theory-of-Mind
Subject
Social Sciences, Psychology
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