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someone else or win their
favor?
• Do you dislike games like
charades or improvisational
acting?
• Do you have trouble changing
your behavior to suit different
people and different situations?
The more you tended to answer “yes”
to this second set of questions, the
more of a low self-monitor you are.
When Professor Little introduced the
concept of self-monitoring to his personality
psychology classes, some students
got very worked up about whether
it was ethical to be a high self-monitor.
A few “mixed” couples—HSMs and
LSMs in love—even broke up over it, he
was told. To high self-monitors, low
self-monitors can seem rigid and socially
awkward. To low self-monitors,
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