Barely 6:00 a.m. and I am out of posts for the day :( I started grad school working in biological bases of personality. So about 30 years ago I remember still talking about these things, including the general area of cognitive styles. About 10 years later I had a conversation with a personality professor at USC about this area, and how I hadn't seen much published about cognitive styles in that past decade and he indicated that the whole area was pretty dead, as empirical studies had failed to support the basic premises of these "styles".
Self-monitoring, as I have read about it seems to fall into that category of personality research. At first I thought it might relate to the more closely researched area these days of metacognitive self-regulation, but that's not it at all. It's my impression, and I certainly have not looked at this area closely in at least 20 years, is that a very few of those original "cognitive styles" have stayed alive only because there was some biological basis to underlie the "style," so that personality dimensions such as introversion/extraversion, survive but dimensions such as sensation seeking or impulsivity--both of which ironically failed to find consistent support of biological differences between individuals-- are no longer discussed. This website seems to have a pretty fair discussion: http://personality-project.org/perproj/others/heineman/COG.HTM as does this one: http://social.jrank.org/pages/149/Cognitive-Style.html The story is more complicated. I remember reading a really fat edited book (edited by London and Exner--geez, the stuff we remember!) about 30 years ago that considered about two dozen cognitive styles in great detail, probably including most of what was known at the time. As I said, 10 years later nothing new seemed to appear. I also looked at field dependence and independence as a secondary variable in my dissertation but it was a bust. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:43:06 -0400 >From: Michael Britt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [tips] Is the "self-monitoring" concept dead? >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > >In grad school we studies Snyder's personality construct of "self- >monitoring". I recall it being an interesting idea at the time but >now I don't see anyone talking about it, nor do I see the concept >covered in the Personality texts I have. Does anyone know - Is the >idea pretty much dead? > >Michael > > >Michael Britt >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.thepsychfiles.com > > > > > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
