Data for 'Understanding self-prioritization: the prioritization of self-relevant stimuli and its relation to the individual self-esteem'

There is an ongoing debate about the way self-relevant stimuli guide us through everyday perception. A new measurement of self-relevance effects, the self-prioritisation effect (SPE), allows for an assessment of self-effects independent of material confounds as the effect of newly acquired self-relevance is tested. While revealing further insights in the way self-relevance influences cognition, the underlying processes of the SPE are not completely understood yet. In that regard, we conducted the following study to test whether the SPE is explained by a person’s self-esteem or, in other words, by the amount someone considers her- or himself worthy or unworthy. In a sample of N = 103 healthy participants, no significant correlation of the SPE and the explicit self-esteem was found. A potential independence of the SPE of a rather complex aspect of the self, the self-esteem, is discussed in order to further understand the underlying processes of the SPE.

学界围绕自我相关刺激如何引导日常感知这一议题长期存在争议。针对自我相关效应的全新测量范式——自我优先效应（self-prioritisation effect, SPE）——可在检验新习得的自我相关性效应的过程中，剥离材料混淆变量对自我效应的干扰，实现对自我效应的独立评估。尽管该范式为揭示自我相关性影响认知的机制提供了新的洞见，但目前学界尚未完全阐明自我优先效应的内在运作过程。有鉴于此，本研究开展如下实验，旨在检验自我优先效应是否可通过个体的自尊水平加以解释，换言之，即个体对自身价值的主观认可程度。在103名健康被试组成的样本中，研究未发现自我优先效应与外显自尊之间存在显著相关。为进一步厘清自我优先效应的内在机制，本文讨论了自我优先效应或许独立于自尊这一自我的复杂维度这一可能性。