Is identity<i>per se</i>irrelevant? A contrarian view of self-verification effects

Gregg, Aiden P.

doi:10.1002/da.20428

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“…Arguably, it presents a challenge to self‐verification theory (Swann et al, ). This theory postulates that identity matters in itself (Gregg, ; Gregg et al, ). Indeed, identity seems to matter so much—as a means of safeguarding psychic coherence and interpersonal harmony—that people with negative self‐views welcome criticism that confirms their self‐views and disdain flattery that undermines them (Swann, Wenzlaff, Krull, & Pelham, ; Swann, Wenzlaff, & Tafarodi, ).…”

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Quantifying self-motives: Functional links between dispositional desires

Gregg

Hepper

Sedikides

2011

Eur. J. Soc. Psychol.

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Previous research has sought to establish the existence, or gauge the relative strength, of key self-evaluation motives (i.e., self-enhancement, self-verification, self-assessment, selfimprovement). Here, we attempted, across five samples, to quantify individual differences in self-motive strength, and explore their empirical ramifications. We devised brief selfreport indices for each self-motive, and checked their factor structure, reliability, and validity. We found that self-enhancement covaried mainly with self-verification, and that self-assessment covaried mainly with self-improvement, thus validating key hypotheses regarding their functional links. Moreover, self-enhancement and self-verification covaried with positive personality traits, as well as with preferences for receiving positive feedback and perceptions of its accuracy. In sum, self-reported variations in dispositional self-motive strength form theoretically meaningful patterns.

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Quantifying self-motives: Functional links between dispositional desires

Gregg

Hepper

Sedikides

2011

Eur. J. Soc. Psychol.

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“…However, the tendency to avoid processing self-threatening information might be overcome under circumstances in which the information has often been encountered in the past or when a person sees a high degree of fit between their own self-view and the behavior (Gomez, Jetten, & Swann, 2014) perhaps due to the plausibility or credibility of such behaviors (Gregg, 2008). Such information may possess a processing fluency advantage, allowing it to be easily linked to existing memory structures, and thus, be easily recalled.…”

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“…One straightforward idea that can help to understand the results of Studies 1 and 2 is that (a) behavior memory is partially determined by one's perception of the extent to which behaviors fit with one's self view (Gomez et al, 2014) perhaps due to their plausibility or credibility (Gregg, 2008), and (b) central negative behaviors are perceived as an especially good fit to the self-view of those who evince high social anxiety. This idea was tested in Study 3a.…”

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Loss of Mnemic Neglect Among Socially Anxious Individuals

Zengel¹,

Skowronski²,

Valentiner³

et al. 2015

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

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This is an article that was published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. The version of record can be found here: http://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/jscp.2015.34.4.322The relation between social anxiety and memory for self-threatening information was investigated in the context of the mnemic neglect paradigm (Sedikides & Green, 2000). It was hypothesized that those high in social anxiety would evince a loss of mnemic neglect: They would show a reduced likelihood of poor memory for central, negative, and self-referent behaviors (i.e., behaviors that reflected social ineptness and untrustworthiness), and would do so because these behaviors are especially threatening to socially anxious individuals and fit well with their self-views. Results from three studies were consistent with the hypothesis. The loss of mnemic neglect observed in two of the studies could not be accounted for by depression, nor was it limited to a social threat context. The results were mixed as to whether the loss of mnemic neglect in socially anxious individuals was limited to behaviors that reflected social ineptness, or whether it also emerged in memory for behaviors that reflected untrustworthiness. Implications for social anxiety, the self, and memory are discussed

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“…Here, we concentrated on state narcissistic entitlement as the outcome variable. Perhaps, only positive feedback is associated with entitlement because it gives reason to believe its significance and hence, entitlement seems justified (see Gregg, 2009 for a similar idea). Also, although people generally use the self-serving bias narcissists in particular attribute failure to external factors (Stucke, 2003).…”

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The Narcissism in Situations Framework: Person and Situation Effects on State Narcissism

Maaß¹,

Lüdtke²,

Ziegler³

2018

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In this article, we describe a general framework for the study of state narcissism considering person and situation effects as well as self-regulation processes. Also, we examined the suggested relationships in two experience-sampling studies (N = 243). Results underline that the subjective valence of social situations is associated with state narcissism (i.e., narcissistic entitlement): Positive feedback and negatively perceived social interactions were positively related to narcissistic entitlement. The relationship with negative interactions was even stronger when participants reported lower state self-esteem. In contrast, positive interactions were negatively related while negative feedback was unexpectedly uncorrelated with narcissistic entitlement. Specific situations (i.e., skills-related feedback, disagreements) were more relevant to narcissistic entitlement than the type of interaction partner (i.e., friend, colleague, sexual partner).

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Is identityper seirrelevant? A contrarian view of self-verification effects

Cited by 56 publications

References 45 publications

Quantifying self-motives: Functional links between dispositional desires

Quantifying self-motives: Functional links between dispositional desires

Loss of Mnemic Neglect Among Socially Anxious Individuals

The Narcissism in Situations Framework: Person and Situation Effects on State Narcissism

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