Impression Management Study 1

This study investigates whether brief exposure to different impression-management styles (neutral self-presentation, straight bragging, or humblebragging) influences how people subsequently present themselves in an evaluative context. Building on theories of social contagion and norm learning, we test whether observing inauthentic or strategic self-presentation norms affects (a) the authenticity of participants’ own self-presentation and (b) their meta-perception accuracy (the alignment between how they think they are evaluated and how independent observers evaluate them).