Defining one's self is an important but challenging task, due to the self's intangible nature. One of the means to overcome this challenge is to extend the self to more tangible manifestations. The present studies examined whether unique experiences can promote such self-extensions, by assessing the relation between people's self-certainty and clearness of self–other boundaries, and their desire for different ways of consuming unique experiences. Study 1 revealed significant negative correlations between participants’ self-certainty and clearness of self–other boundary, and their desire for social (e.g., sharing with others) and permanent aspects (e.g., documentation in pictures) of unique experiences. Studies 2–3 showed that experimentally undermining self-certainty increased participants’ desire for experiences’ social aspect, and undermining self–other boundary increased the desire for the consumption of unique experiences in general. Together, these results demonstrate that by functioning as sources o...

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通过体验扩展自我：破坏一个人的自我意识的各个方面会影响对独特体验的渴望

定义自己的自我是一项重要但具有挑战性的任务，因为自我的无形的本性。克服这一挑战的方法之一是将自我扩展到更具体的表现形式。本研究通过评估人们的自我确定性和其他边界界限的清晰性，以及他们对采用独特经历的不同方式的渴望之间的关系，来研究独特的经历是否能够促进这种自我延伸。研究1显示，参与者的自我确定性和与他人之间界限的清晰性与他们对独特经验的社会性（例如，与他人共享）和永久性方面（例如，图片中的文档）的渴望之间存在显着的负相关关系。研究2–3表明，通过实验破坏自我确定性会增加参与者对体验的社会方面的渴望，破坏自我与他人之间的界限，通常增加了人们对独特体验的消费欲望。这些结果加在一起表明，通过充当...的来源