Although their study-like all scholarly research-was fairly complicated, Duval and Wicklund primarily wanted to analyze the effects of focusing attention exclusively on the self in an objective evaluation. Self-Awareness Theory Even though the concept of self-awareness has likely existed for a very long time, the first major studies on the theory of self-awareness emerged during the early 1970s from psychologists Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund. This is an act of self-awareness because you are looking at yourself as an individual, separate from everything else in the video, and evaluating what you see based on your internal standards of how you think a person is supposed to look and behave.
You probably didn't think that at the time of the wedding, but now that you're looking at yourself, presumably as everyone else saw you, you might start to think that you need to take some lessons in order to become what you consider to be a good dancer.
