A study that investigates self-focused attention and the experience of emotion: Attraction, repulsion, elation, and depression- by: Michael F.Scheier & Charles. S . Carver- which is directly related to the question asked at the start of the essay- both positive and negative, of different types of self-awareness and self-consciousness. This piece of literature talks about two experiments, one was to have a group of undergraduate men were asked to view and rate slides of nude women in the presence of a mirror or with no mirror, the results showed that mirror subjects made proportionally more self-focus responses and few external world-focus responses than no-mirror subjects. This shows that exposure to a mirror heightens self-awareness and people start picking out fault in themselves and others, which is in fact unattractive. All of this raises a question, how well do we really know ourselves? For example if it is clear that anytime we look in the mirror, we see something wrong with ourselves and in turn makes us feel more self- conscious and more critical, than you think by now we'd know that looking in the mirror isn't going to do us any favours and stop. This is just a simple example but if you think about it that would make sense. For these reasons and so one won't be judged by others people tend to control and monitor how they are perceived and evaluated by the outside world, this is known as self- presentation, which is very common for both male and females to be aware of on a day to day base. When people become aware that there are others around they almost put on a mask because they are no longer being themselves but being the person they think others want to see. Most of the situations I have discussed have been negative but sometimes self-awareness can be a good thing, for example in the likes of an interview, people have to be well presented or maybe not get the job or even be considered. ‘ It is generally understood that th