5 Self-models and person models: how are they related?

Finally let me point out an important question raised by Quadt, namely how are person models and self-models related to each other? A self-model is a special type of person model, the person model that someone develops of herself. This is also done at the two levels of an implicit self-schema and an explicit self-image. I intend to elaborate on the interaction between self-models and person model of others in future articles, but I completely agree with Quadt when she says that there is bi-directional informational exchange regarding both types of models in humans (which is also indicated in my paper in figure 2, p. 21): “I thus conclude that it should not only be considered how the development of a self-model influences social cognition, but also which role social processes play in forming such a self-model” (Quadt 2015, p. 10). The PMT has potential as a framework for a theory of human self-consciousness.