ht to a testing room by one of the two experimenters. The experimenters were both women. The participant would then be told that they would be participating in a series of different games, puzzles, and questionnaires. The children were told that for their participation they would receive fifteen tokens that were worth ten cents each. The tokens could be exchanged for a gift certificate to Baskin Robbins. The children were then told that they could give some of their tokens to the children that were not in the study but they did not have to if they did not want to. To manipulate the private self-awareness the experimenter used an abbreviated version of the California Q-sort for children. The California Q-sort caused the children to focus on their real self and then again on their ideal self. The Children not in this condition did thinks such as ?Name as many cars as you can?. The experimenter informed the participants that she had to leave for a minute. The experimenter then gave the children a chance to donate some of their tokens in private to those who have none but you do not have to if you do not want to. This was done for the private self-awareness task.For the private self-schema task, the participants were then given a task designed to measure to the extent at which they had articulated a private self-schema in each of the two domains. The two domains are communion and agency words. The communion list of twenty-five words contained altruistic behavior descriptors. The other twenty-five words were for the agency group. They were synonyms of the first twenty-five words. The two lists were randomly interspersed to make a combined list of fifty words. Probe questions were used to determine for non-self-schematic control, the probe question for that was ?Is this a nice word?? for the self-schematic control the probe question was ?Is this word like you??To measure they eliminated the first four words and the final fou...
