our accurate self-consciousness of our differences can cause us…

Page 99 our accurate self-consciousness of our differences can cause us to exaggerate or misinterpret others reactions. At times, our acute self-consciousness of our differences may have funny consequences. In one of social psychologies more creative studies, Robert Kleck, and Angelo Stretta Used theatrical make up to place an ear to mouth facial scar on college women, supposedly to see how others would react. After each woman checked the real looking scar in a hand mirror, the experimenter applied moisturizer to keep the make up from cracking, but which actually removed the scar . So the scene was set, a woman feeling terribly self-conscious about her supposedly scarred face, talks with another woman who knows nothing of all of this. If you have ever felt similarly self-conscious, perhaps about a physical handicap then perhaps you can sympathize with the women

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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