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On the Plasticity of Self-Defense
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This article showed that despite their differences, these mechanisms may be substitutable for one another, and that there is surprising generality or flexibility in the processes used to maintain self-esteem.Abstract:
Many qualitatively different mechanisms for regulating self-esteem have been described in the literature. These include, for example, reduction of cognitive dissonance, self-affirmation, and social comparison. The work reviewed here demonstrates that despite their differences, these mechanisms may be substitutable for one another. For example, a threat to self via cognitive dissonance can affect attempts to maintain self-esteem via social comparison. This implies that these mechanisms are serving the same, unitary goal of maintaining self-esteem. Thus, there is surprising generality or flexibility in the processes used to maintain self-esteem. Substitution of one mechanism for another may depend on the transfer of affect. The issue of substitutability across domains is briefly discussed.read more
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Putting the self into self-conscious emotions: A theoretical model
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The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations
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Explaining Away A Model of Affective Adaptation
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Images of Success and the Preference for Luxury Brands
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Discrepancies between explicit and implicit self-concepts: Consequences for information processing.
TL;DR: This research suggests that individuals might be motivated to examine relevant information as a strategy to minimize the implicit doubt that accompanies an inconsistency between explicit and implicit self-conceptions.
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The Psychology of Self-Affirmation: Sustaining the Integrity of the Self
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the way coping processes restore self-regard rather than the way they address the provoking threat itself, focusing on the way people cope with the implications of threat to their self-reward.
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Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior
TL;DR: The Self-Evaluation Maintenance (SEM) model as discussed by the authors is composed of two dynamic processes, the reflection process and the comparison process, which have as component variables the closeness of another and the quality of that other's performance, which interact in affecting self-evaluation but do so in quite opposite ways in each of the processes.
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Dissonance processes as self-affirmation
Claude M. Steele,Thomas J. Liu +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that the self-affirmation effect was strong enough to prevent the reinstatement of dissonance and that salient, self-aware cognitions may help objectify our reactions to self-threatening information.
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The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance: A Current Perspective1
TL;DR: The theory of cognitive dissonance as mentioned in this paper has been applied to a wide range of psychological phenomena, such as interpersonal relations or feelings toward a communicator and his communication, and it has been used to explain human behavior.
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Assessment, enhancement, and verification determinants of the self-evaluation process.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared three major self-evaluation motives: self-assessment, self-enhancement and self-verification, and found that people pursue highly certain self-knowledge.