Niedenthal P M, Cantor N, Kihlstrom J F
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1985 Mar;48(3):575-84. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.48.3.575.
College students responded to a series of questionnaires while they were in the process of selecting housing from a choice of seven available options for the coming fall. Questionnaires concerned their self-concepts, their housing prototypes, their preferences in housing, and their goals in housing selection. Overall analyses of the self-to-prototype matching strategy suggest that most students indeed prefer the type of housing for which their prototype of the "representative" resident most closely matches their self-perceptions. More important, we obtained individual differences in attention to self-fit in situations. Of individuals who reported that they had interpersonal goals in the housing selection task, those who reported that many personality characteristics (both positive and negative) were untrue of self were more systematic in their use of the self-to-prototype matching rule, this was also true of low self-monitors. Neither pattern of individual differences obtained for students with practical goals in the housing decision.
大学生在为即将到来的秋季从七个可选住房选项中挑选住房的过程中，对一系列问卷做出了回应。问卷涉及他们的自我概念、住房原型、住房偏好以及住房选择目标。对自我与原型匹配策略的总体分析表明，大多数学生确实更喜欢那种他们心目中“典型”居民的原型与自我认知最紧密匹配的住房类型。更重要的是，我们发现了在不同情境下对自我契合度关注的个体差异。在那些表示在住房选择任务中有人际目标的个体中，那些报告许多个性特征（包括积极和消极的）与自己不符的人在使用自我与原型匹配规则时更具系统性，低自我监控者也是如此。在住房决策中有实际目标的学生未表现出这两种个体差异模式。
