Reflected Appraisal through a 21st-Century Looking Glass

Authors

Harry M. Wallace, Trinity UniversityFollow
Dianne M. Tice

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

The concept of reflected appraisal—also known as reflected self-appraisal or the looking-glass self—refers to the processes by which people's self-views are influenced by their perceptions of how others view them. Reflected appraisal is reflected in the metaphor that people use others as a mirror (i.e., looking glass) for judging themselves, and also in the sense that others' judgments are reflected in self-judgments. The concept refers simultaneously to person A's self-appraisal and person A's appraisal of person B's appraisal of person A. These appraisals exert reciprocal influence: Self-views affect judgments of others' views, and judgments of others' views affect self-views. In short, reflected appraisal can be viewed as a cycle of mutually influential judgments.

Editor

Mark R. Leary & June Price Tangney

Publisher

Guilford Press

City

New York

ISBN

9781462503056, 9781462515370

Repository Citation

Wallace, H. M., & Tice, D. M. (2012). Reflected appraisal through a 21st-century looking glass. In M. R. Leary & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of self and identity (2nd ed., 124-140). Guilford Press.

Publication Information

Handbook of Self and Identity