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Turning up the contrast: Self-enhancement motives prompt egocentric contrast effects in social judgments
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“When faced with threats to the self, such as feedback of failure or social rejection, adults exhibit compensatory behaviors that help them buffer and enhance their self-views (4–6).”
From Development of self-protective biases in response to social evaluative feedback (2017) · cites this paper as [5]
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“Researchers have also found that adults make less favorable appraisals of others (5, 9, 10)”
From Development of self-protective biases in response to social evaluative feedback (2017) · cites this paper as [5]
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“The tendency for adults to rate accepting peers more favorably (36), respond to negative feedback by denigrating others (5, 9, 10), and engage in retaliatory impression updating (11) aligns with previous work.”
From Development of self-protective biases in response to social evaluative feedback (2017) · cites this paper as [5]
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The psychology of self-defense: Self-affirmation theory
Sherman, D. K., & Cohen, G. L. (2006) · Advances in Experimental Social Psychology · doi:10.1016/s0065-2601(06)38004-5 · Cited by 1,614
“…inferior other (Fein, Hoshino‐ Browne, Davies, & Spencer, 2003), gossiping negatively about a third party (Wert, 2004; Wert & Salovey, 2004), or harshly judging a political ingroup member who fails to demonstrate as much fervor for the cause as one personally does (Beauregard & Dunning, 1998).”
BackgroundThe Costly Pursuit of Self-Esteem
Crocker, J., & Park, L. E. (2004) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.130.3.392 · Cited by 1,402
“…compensatory self-enhancement (e.g., Baumeister & Jones, 1978; Gollwitzer & Wicklund, 1985; Greenberg & Pyszczynski, 1985); downward comparison (Beauregard & Dunning, 1998; Crocker, PURSUIT OF SELF-ESTEEM Thompson, McGraw, & Ingerman, 1987; Pyszczynski, Greenberg, & Laprelle, 1985; Wills,…”
Self-enhancement and self-protection: What they are and what they do
Alicke, M. D., & Sedikides, C. (2009) · European Review of Social Psychology · doi:10.1080/10463280802613866 · Cited by 952
“…in legions of social-psychological studies in which important interests (such as to be intelligent) are threatened in order to assess the effects on various aspects of behaviour or judgement (Beauregard & Dunning, 1998; Buckingham & Alicke, 2002; Green & Sedikides, 2004; Guenther & Alicke, 2008).”
BackgroundExperimental manipulations of self-affirmation: A systematic review
MCQueen, A., & Klein, W. M. P. (2006) · Self and Identity · doi:10.1080/15298860600805325 · Cited by 563
“…1996); (3) used an experimental manipulation eliciting self-enhancement strategies other than selfaffirmation (such as derogation of others; Beauregard & Dunning, 1998); or (4) used measures to assess self-affirmation as a dependent variable—either survey-based (Lockwood, Dolderman,…”
MethodChambers, J. R., & Windschitl, P. D. (2004) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.130.5.813 · Cited by 547
“…then use these idiosyncratic trait definitions when judging others, sometimes in ways that produce self-favoring comparative trait judgments (Beauregard & Dunning, 1998, 2001; Dunning & Cohen, 1992; Dunning & McElwee, 1995; Dunning et al., 1991; McElwee, Dunning, Tan, & Hollman, 2001; Story…”
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- Authors
- Beauregard, K. S., & Dunning, D.
- ORCID
- Dunning, David
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1998
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 606-621
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W4322696406
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 29.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Keywords
- self-enhancement motive, social judgment, contrast effects, self-enhancement, self-concept
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