Shyness and self-presentation

Abstract

There is growing recognition in all of psychology that cognitive processes play important roles in shaping the course and outcome of human behaviour. The ability to think about oneself, to fashion a coherent and pragmatic view of oneself, is the specific slice of this cognitive movement that serves as the impetus for a focus on the role of the self in social interaction. In short, one's human capacity to consider one's own identity, values, social image, personal worth, and the like, is a part of everyday life that influences the entire panorama of one's actions, often in subtle ways.