Implicit measures and self-report questionnaires keep disagreeing about the same self-concept

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What you say about yourself on a questionnaire and what your choices say about you are two different data sets The self-image you carry is months out of date and keeps reporting a body you no longer have Math self-concept and general self-esteem move separately which is why a good student can still feel stupid The pen-in-the-teeth studies said the face tells the mind what it feels and the replications were unkind When behaviour contradicts the self-concept people usually revise the concept and keep the behaviour Who am I gets a different answer depending on who is asking and inconsistency is the wrong word for it Psychology's self is a measurable object and philosophy's self is a condition of experience and one word is doing two jobs One generous act and you file yourself as generous while one lapse files you as a fraud The better-than-average effect is strongest on traits nobody can measure Bem's self-perception theory says you infer your own attitudes from your behaviour the way you infer anyone else's