About You
You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet
you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some
personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for
them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not
turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the
outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At
times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the
right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain
amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed
in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an
independent thinker; and do not accept others' statements without
satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank
in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted,
affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted,
wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather
unrealistic.
Forer, B. R. (1949): The fallacy of personal validation: A classroom demonstration of gullibility (Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 44, 118-123).
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