Intervening in the Outcomes of Identity Shift

• In Event: An Intervention for Identity Shift: Unpacking the Challenges and Discrepancies of a CMC Theory and its Future

Abstract

Caleb T. Carr (Illinois State University, USA) has been interested in the manifestation of identity shift and feedback processes. His identity shift research has been presented at ICIA and appeared in Media Psychology, and has empirically assessed the effects of various feedback providers and channels on identity shift and is currently conducting research exploring the domains to which identity shift effects may be extended. Utilizing primarily experimental methods, Carr has conducted research demonstrating how identity shift work—currently constrained to the outcomes of extroversion/introversion in the literature—may be expanded to outcomes beyond introversion/extraversion to account for additional perceptional and behavioral effects, and exists in a more complex communicative environment than many lab studies emulate. Yet in doing so, his research has encountered several challenges in conducting identity shift work: The relatively small effect size of identity shift outcomes, priming effects, and conceptualizing behavioral manifestation of identity shift. He wants to hold an intervention in identity shift work to address the generalizability of identity shift work and its effects, considering and discussing to outcomes identity shift processes effects and the potential cross-disciplinary breadth of identity shift work.

Author

• Caleb T. Carr, Illinois State U