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===Implications=== The rouge test is a measure of [[self-concept]]; the child who touches the rouge on their own nose upon looking into a mirror demonstrates the basic ability to understand self-awareness.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/dev.420050403 | pmid=4679817 | volume=5 | issue=4 | title=Mirror self-image reactions before age two | year=1972 | journal=Dev Psychobiol | pages=297β305 | author=Amsterdam B}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7FK3AwAAQBAJ&q=Butterworth%2C+1992&pg=PA94|title=Self-awareness in the first few weeks of life|access-date=4 November 2017|isbn=9781136872006|last1=Brown|first1=Jonathon|date=2014-06-03|publisher=Psychology Press }}</ref><ref>Social Psychology, 6th Edition p. 68-69</ref> Animals,<ref name="coren">{{cite book |title=How Dogs Think |author=Stanley Coren |isbn=978-0-7432-2232-7 |year=2004 |publisher=Free Press |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/howdogsthinkunde00core }}</ref> young children,<ref name="palmer">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/ConsciousnessandtheSymbolicUniverse.htm|title=Consciousness and the Symbolic Universe|website=ulm.edu}}</ref> and people who have gained sight after being blind from birth,<ref name="archer">{{cite book |last=Archer |first=John |year=1992 |title=Ethology and Human Development|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-389-20996-6}}</ref> sometimes react to their reflection in the mirror as though it were another individual.{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}} Theorists have remarked on the significance of this period in a child's life. For example, [[psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] used a similar test in marking the [[mirror stage]] when growing up.<ref name="Lacan">Lacan, J., ''Some reflections on the Ego'' in ''Γcrits'', org. published 1949.</ref> Current views of the [[self (psychology)|self in psychology]] position the self as playing an integral part in human motivation, cognition, affect, and [[social identity]].<ref name="Sedikides" />
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