Time perception depends on an event's emotional relevance to the beholder; a subjective time dilation effect is associated with self-relevant, emotionally salient stimuli.
This suggests that conspiratorial thinking is driven by a strong human desire to make sense of social forces that are self-relevant, important, and threatening.
People are especially likely to process information to support their own beliefs when the issue is highly important or self-relevant.
But the authors argue that they've come upon "the first causal evidence that manipulating a person's sense of connectedness to their own later self induces her to make impatient choices in consequential, self-relevant contexts".
Participants gazed at a photograph of their own face or at self-relevant words.
The present study investigated how users felt a sense of self-presence when they were exposed to self-relevant avatars.
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether increased oxytocin levels would induce a time dilation effect for self-relevant, positive social cues.
The purpose of this study was to test the influence of exercise self-schema on the processing of self-relevant information in the sport and exercise domain.
In the self-adaptive algorithm, the convergent speed of Newton's method is faster than that of the steepest descent method because Newton's method utilizes the self-relevant messages of receiving data in the self-adaptive learning processes.
By comparing oneself with others, social comparison serves as a fundamental need to fulfill one's quest to discover the reality of themselves based on self-relevant information (Buunk & Gibbons, 2007).
People are engaged in processes when they pursue self-relevant goals in their daily lives (Dweck [2000]; see also, Breckler and Greenwald [1986]; Deci and Ryan [1991]; Epstein [1990]).
