1990
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-0861-2
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Self-Handicapping

Abstract: A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. rence, Kansas 66045 vii FOREWORDThe concept of self-handicapping can be legitimately anchored in a variety of intellectual contexts, some old and some newer. As this volume reminds us, Alfred Adler was perhaps the first to articulate the significance of various self-de… Show more

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“…Simultaneously, it facilitates minimally negative affect after failure, because the task was extremely difficult and—at least according to participants' self-reports—even exceeded their own abilities, which reduced their responsibility for potential failures. According to this line of thought, the findings of Cervone et al and J. Wright and Mischel are interpretable as indicating a self-handicapping strategy (see R. Higgins, Snyder, & Berglas, 1990) to minimize further negative affect and to maximize potential positive affect.…”
Section: Evidence For Simultaneous Informational and Directive Mood Imentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Simultaneously, it facilitates minimally negative affect after failure, because the task was extremely difficult and—at least according to participants' self-reports—even exceeded their own abilities, which reduced their responsibility for potential failures. According to this line of thought, the findings of Cervone et al and J. Wright and Mischel are interpretable as indicating a self-handicapping strategy (see R. Higgins, Snyder, & Berglas, 1990) to minimize further negative affect and to maximize potential positive affect.…”
Section: Evidence For Simultaneous Informational and Directive Mood Imentioning
confidence: 95%
“…In Studies 3a and 3b, we tested whether beliefs about deservingness brought about by experiencing/recalling bad breaks affects claimed self-handicapping. Self-handicapping involves claiming or creating an excuse or disadvantage prior to performing a task that may serve as a ready-made explanation in the event of failure (for reviews, see Higgins, Snyder, & Berglas, 1990 ; Hirt & McCrea, 2002 ; Rhodewalt, 2008 ). Self-handicapping is believed to serve a self-protective function because, in the short-term, it enables people to maintain positive self-esteem in light of task failure by attributing poor performance to a self-handicap instead of a lack of ability.…”
Section: Studies 3a and 3b: Effects Of Good/bad Breaks On Self-handicmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Behavioral self-handicapping has been demonstrated in numerous studies through drug and alcohol ingestion, lack of preparation, a choice of distracting surroundings, and the like (see Higgins, Snyder, & Berglas, 1990, for a review). Researchers have also argued that the claim of personal handicaps, even after a performance, serves the same self-protective, attributional function of behavioral self-handicaps, and thus these verbal excuses should be categorized along with preemptive roadblocks to success (Snyder & Smith, 1982).…”
Section: Study 2: the Computer Crashesmentioning
confidence: 99%