Are my students’ selfies actual, literal illustrations of the sociological looking-glass self? The concept of the looking-glass self originated in the work of Charles Horton Cooley (1964).

Psychologists have described the looking glass as a process of reflective self-appraisal. That is, one’s self-concept is highly influenced by how we perceive what other people think about us.

“Who She Found in the Looking Glass” explores three critical layers of perspective to challenge the concepts of self-identity and connection through portraiture: the artist, the muse(s), and ...

For decades, scientists have explored how “the self is a social product.” We interpret the world through social observation. In 1902, Charles Cooley invented the concept “the looking glass ...

It may be called the “looking-glass self-concept”, where a person’s self grows out of social interactions. This may leads us to Walther’s Hyper Personal Theory where computer mediated ...