Whitney L. Heppner

TL;DR: Two studies found that dispositional mindfulness correlated negatively with self-reported aggressiveness and hostile attribution bias, and participants made mindful before receiving social rejection feedback displayed less-aggressive behavior than did rejected participants not made mindful.

TL;DR: Discussion centers on why the possession of well-anchored and secure high self-esteem obviates defensiveness directed toward enhancing, maintaining, or bolstering feelings of self-worth.

TL;DR: Multilevel random-coefficients modeling revealed that authenticity, autonomy, competence, and relatedness were all positively and significantly related to daily reports of self-esteem, even when it was controlled for the contributions of pleasant and unpleasant affect.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which individual differences in authenticity and mindfulness predicted verbal defensiveness and found that higher scores on each related to lower levels of verbal defENSiveness.

TL;DR: Kernis et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the extent to which dispositional authenticity is associated with dating couples' relationship behaviors and outcomes as well as their personal well-being and found that authenticity was related to engaging in healthy relationship behaviors, which in turn predicted positive relationship outcomes and greater personal wellbeing.