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On the confluence of self processes
Abraham Tesser,David P. Cornell +1 more
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This paper found that making salient positive self-evaluation scenarios reduced the propensity to engage in dissonance reduction whereas making salient a threatening SEM scenario did not, indicating that these hypothetical self-systems affect the same mediating variable and that the motivation is to maintain rather than maximize self-esteem.About:
This article is published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.The article was published on 1991-11-01. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self-affirmation.read more
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The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review.
TL;DR: The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them as mentioned in this paper, and characterizes emotion in terms of response tendencies.
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Mood and judgment: the affect infusion model (AIM).
TL;DR: A new integrative theory, the affect infusion model (AIM), is proposed as a comprehensive explanation of these effects of affective states in social judgments, and predicts that judgments requiring heuristic or substantive processing are more likely to be infused by affect than are direct access or motivated judgments.
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The nature and function of self-esteem: Sociometer theory
Mark R. Leary,Roy F. Baumeister +1 more
TL;DR: Self-esteem is a sociometer, essentially an internal monitor of the degree to which one is valued or devalued as a relational partner as mentioned in this paper, and is defined as a person's appraisal of his or her value.
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Superstars and me : Predicting the impact of role models on the self
Penelope Lockwood,Ziva Kunda +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that superstars are most likely to affect self-views when they are considered relevant, and that relevant superstars provoke selfenhancement and inspiration when their success seems attainable but self-deflation when it seems unattainable.
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The Psychology of Self‐defense: Self‐Affirmation Theory
TL;DR: For example, this paper showed that the vast majority of attempts to hit the ball would result in "making an out" and thus pose a potential threat to the player's sense of personal worth and social regard.
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A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
TL;DR: Cognitive dissonance theory links actions and attitudes as discussed by the authors, which holds that dissonance is experienced whenever one cognition that a person holds follows from the opposite of at least one other cognition that the person holds.
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Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of reward or reinforcement on preceding behavior depend in part on whether the person perceives the reward as contingent on his own behavior or independent of it, and individuals may also differ in generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
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The Principles of Psychology
TL;DR: For instance, the authors discusses the multiplicity of the consciousness of self in the form of the stream of thought and the perception of space in the human brain, which is the basis for our work.
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Self-discrepancy: a theory relating self and affect.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory of how different types of discrepancies between self-state representations are related to different kinds of emotional vulnerabilities, and they predict that differences in both the relative magnitude and the accessibility of individuals' available types of self-discrepancies are predicted to be related to differences in the kinds of discomfort people are likely to experience.