Research Paper on:
Social Interaction and Self Preservation

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implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joint or collective accomplishment. Impression management represents a significant component of joint relationship  interaction; personal description is not just an individuals presentation of his or her own self-image, but rather the means by which another accepts that image as reality. Therefore, if  human interaction is considered to always represent joint interaction, then one can readily surmise that such logical deduction implies consequences of interaction must also be jointly accomplished, as well.  "Individual evaluations of personal abilities have been shown to be influenced by perceptions of competency. Low-ability claims were generally motivated by modesty or a defense mechanism, while high-ability claims  were usually based on self-presentation when the ability could not be tested" (Vonk 390). In his book entitled Acts of Meaning, Jerome Bruner  comments on the issue of impression management in relation to its impact on human interaction. Bruner, a founder of the "Cognitive Revolution" and involved within the field of psychology  for more than sixty years, considers some of the problems inherent in psychology today and why psychology has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans,  according to Bruner, are storytellers and as such they utilize this trait one of the essential methods for learning. A psychology that fails to give this any importance is  indeed a psychology that will greatly fail in understanding the human mind. It is important to keep oneself centered upon the running narrative of impression management that becomes ones  life; this not only keeps people alive but also keeps them learning, as well (Bruner PG). Indeed, counselors, therapists and educators are, for