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While your experiences help to shape your self-concept, your self-concept, in turn, helps to shape your future experiences. How you see yourself in relation to others guides your behavior. Probably, you behave differently depending on the people you are with. You may be outgoing when with one friend but be intimidated by another. You may feel like a star in art class but inferior in chemistry, or vice versa. At any given moment, the nature of your self is affected by the nature of the situation in which you find yourself. And your interactions shape your view of yourself. Consequently, your language, attitudes, and appearance are apt to change as you move from one set of conditions to another. In a way, you become different selves as you adapt to perceived changes (see Table 2.2).

Table 2.2