Talk:Impression management/Archives/2012

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Self-presentation and impression management are related, but I wouldn't say they are the same thing. Should there be a seperate page for impression management?

About impression management and self-presentation

I would agree with you. I also think impression management and self-presentation is different. IM is image building behavior that is conscious and intentional. Whereas self-presentation of a certain kind can be either self-deceptive or intentional.

Mena Ning 01:23, 19 July 2007 (UTC) Mena Ning

A whole lotta nothing...

I came to this page expecting to find something significant about self presentation but instead find something completely different. This should not have been a redirect! Specifically, there should have been made reference to some of the fundamental ideas and the strategies used. I'll create a proper page about self presentation in a day or two.

Mainly.generic 23:55, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

First impressions vs. "second seeings" etc.

Goffman isn't as concerned about first impressions as the entry currently suggests; he instead emphasizes that some impressions are formed over time. He talks about "second seeings" and how "breaking frame" occurs after multiple seeings: Upon second seeings: "The participants thereby 'break frame'; they momentarily step out of their appropriate role as mutually disattending strangers, thereby providing an open acknowledgment of something that might otherwise leave lingering doubts, and an easy return to ordinary expectation regarding chance seeings. Third seeings seem to be even more likely than seconds to evoke this sort of joking interchange" (Relations in Public 324). So I might take out the sentence about IM being mostly about first impressions. Nice job on the page! :-)

--Deanya (talk) 14:19, 17 June 2008 (UTC)