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Who Wants Out When the Going Gets Good? Psychological Investment and Preference for Self-Verifying College Roommates
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The results of a field investigation indicate that people who are highly invested in their self-views (confidently held or personally important) are especially inclined to display a preference for verification of their self-views. Specifically, only those participants who were certain of their self-views or perceived them as important preferred roommates who confirmed their self-views. Such preferences were some-what stronger when the self-views were relatively negative. This is the first demonstration of self-verification in a field setting in which relationship partners were randomly assigned to one another.
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- Authors
- Swann, W. B., & Pelham, B.
- Venue
- Self and Identity
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2002-07
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 219-233
- ISSN
- 1529-8868 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-8876
- OpenAlex
- W1983356986
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- 180
- References
- 5
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- 3.84
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- Language
- en
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