Idiosyncratic
Descriptions of self usually reflect not only the behavioral tendencies of a person but also idiosyncratic definitions of the social concepts and the categories that are being considered. Several studied have found that participants who differed in their self-ratings along trait dimensions that is tended to associate different behaviors and their performances with those traits. People who were found to describe themselves as dominant tended to emphasize upon the desirable over the undesirable behaviors and the characteristics in their derived definitions of the trait, while self-described nondominants were found to highlight the opposite. Participants' self-ratings on dominance have also been found to influence by making positive or negative examples of the dominant behavior that is salient to them. Moreover, when people are found induced to shift self-descriptions in different self-serving ways, they usually tended to do so by revising their prototype of the trait that is in the question.