How to Investigate the Self

As you learn about the world, you're also learning about yourself. So as I'm thinking about investigating the self, what I want to know is how do our traits influence how we behave in the world? How do our behaviors garner sensory consequences in order to inform that sense of self again? The experiments I design are mostly around agency which is a lot about action and consequences. And so it's the participants themselves in my experiment experimenting with what they can control and trying to figure that out.