'self-referent' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that describes something that refers to itself or oneself. Example: His self-referent behavior often made others feel uncomfortable, as he constantly talked about his own accomplishments and never asked about anyone else's.
"Self-referent phenotype matching can serve any of several functions," Mateo said.
In the 1970s Native Americans in Canada began to use the term First Nation as their preferred self-referent.
Self-focused attention is an awareness of self-referent information and is present in many emotional disorders.
Reboxetine had no effect on neuronal response during self-referent categorisation of positive or negative personality trait words.
Psychology researcher Jill Mateo and professor Robert Johnston with one of the golden hamsters that helped prove self-referent phenotype matching, the so-called armpit effect.
Neural responses during categorisation and recognition of self-referent personality trait words were assessed using event-related functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).
This was combined with increased speed to recognize positive vs. negative words compared to control subjects and suggests facilitated memory for positive self-referent material.
Participants were exposed to a short intervention, either mindfulness or unfocused attention, before being instructed to read and later recall self-referent behaviors.
The findings indicated that recall of self-threatening and other self-referent information was increased following the mindfulness but not unfocused attention intervention.
Golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) in a Cornell psychology laboratory compared other body odors to their own to prove that self-referent phenotype matching (also known as the armpit effect) helps animals distinguish family members from strangers.
Any time you need to discriminate accurately among kin, this (self-referent phenotype matching) is the way to do it". The study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
