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Accepting threatening information: Self‐affirmation and the reduction of defensive biases
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Why do people resist evidence that challenges the validity of long–held beliefs? And why do they persist in maladaptive behavior even when persuasive information or personal experience recommends change? We argue that such defensive tendencies are driven, in large part, by a fundamental motivation to protect the perceived worth and integrity of the self. Studies of social–political debate, health–risk assessment, and responses to team victory or defeat have shown that people respond to information in a less defensive and more open–minded manner when their self–worth is buttressed by an affirmation of an alternative source of identity. Self–affirmed individuals are more likely to accept information that they would otherwise view as threatening, and subsequently to change their beliefs and even their behavior in a desirable fashion. Defensive biases have an adaptive function for maintaining self–worth, but maladaptive consequences for promoting change and reducing social conflict.
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“Researchers have shown that individuals who are either personally affirmed or exposed to group-affirming stimuli thereafter display less bias when processing information that is contrary to beliefs dominantly held by their peers (Cohen, 2000;Sherman & Cohen, 2002;Cohen et al., in press).”
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“Self-aYrmation theory proposes a third alternative, a diVerent kind of psychological adaptation-one that, under many circumstances, enables both the restoration of self-integrity and adaptive behavior change.”
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“One way that these defensive adaptations can be reduced, or even eliminated, is through the process of self-aYrmation (Aronson, Cohen, & Nail, 1999;Sherman & Cohen, 2002;Steele, 1988).”
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- Authors
- Sherman, D. K., & Cohen, G. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sherman, David K.
- Cohen, Geoffrey L.
- Venue
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 119-123
- ISSN
- 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8721
- OpenAlex
- W2146463557
- Semantic Scholar
- efa426cefbedeb6a8d58ba3c27f93d8e20c2bf01
- Cited by
- 435
- References
- 21
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- FWCI
- 35.18
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Directions in Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Keywords
- self-affirmation, belief revision, self-worth, identity affirmation, persuasion, health risk assessment, social conflict, openness to experience, behavior change
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