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Doppelganger: Twins' Disruption of the Assumptions of Constancy and Uniqueness of Self in Everyday Life
Author(s) -
Sadri Mahmoud,
Sadri Ahmad
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.1994.17.2.203
Subject(s) - uniqueness , everyday life , dual (grammatical number) , psychology , aesthetics , social psychology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , art , philosophy , literature
The ubiquitous presence of the assumptions of constancy and uniqueness of self in everyday life renders them virtually undetectable. A radical disruption of these assumptions through an experiment involving identical twins lays bare the varieties of “extrinsic” and “intrinsic” rationalizations and convictions concerning the performer and the audience that protect the above dual assumptions of social cognition and communication.