PREDICTING YOUR OWN AND OTHERS THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS - MORE LIKE A STRANGER THAN A FRIEND

Subjects made predictions about the likely cognitions or affective rea ctions that they, a well-known other, and a prototypic other, would ha ve to ink-blot and pictorial stimuli. Their responses were categorized using Karniol's (1986) 10 transformation rules. No differences betwee n the targets of prediction were found on any of the measures when ink -blot stimuli were used. For pictorial stimuli, a greater variety of t ransformation rules was used to make predictions about a well-known ot her than about self, and a greater variety of transformation rules was used for self than for a prototypic other. Again, for pictorial stimu li, more predictions about a well-known other were made using associat ions, transformation rules that represent personalized knowledge than about self, and more predictions using associations were made about se lf than about a prototypic other. Finally, the specific transformation rules used to make predictions about self and a prototypic other were move often the same than were the rules used to make predictions abou t self and a well-known other. The implications of the findings for th e way procedural and declarative knowledge are represented are discuss ed within the context of the transformation rule model.