Social Acceptance Measure

Milhabet, Isabelle; Barbenchon, Emmanuelle Le; Cambon, Laurent; Molina, Guylaine

doi:10.1037/t43351-000

Cited by 1 publication

(5 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…For example, Anderson and Galinsky (2006) assumed that optimism is associated with risky choices in professional domains, which may lead to superior performance. This explanation fits particularly well with the social acceptance of CO in the social utility dimension (Le Barbenchon & Milhabet, 2005; Le Barbenchon et al, 2008;Milhabet et al, 2012). CO may be beneficial in the professional domain because it is perceived as leading to firm value maximization (Anderson & Galinsky, 2006) and investment in new economic markets (Bougheas, 2002).…”

Section: Outlook On the Future Social Acceptance And Risk-taking Potsupporting

confidence: 65%

“…The converse was true for the optimistic comparative target (+ 34%). These percentages were the same as those of the study Milhabet et al (2012).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…Yet, these neutral outlooks on the future are more socially accepted on the dimension of desirability than on the dimension of utility. Milhabet et al (2012;experiments 1-3) showed the same results because to be perceived useful and more useful than desirable, the CO must be expressed unambiguously. Thus, unsurprisingly, the neutral target is perceived as more desirable and useful.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…These dimensions have been given a variety of names but it is worth noting that no major empirical differences have been demonstrated between these various conceptualizations (Wojciszke & Abele, 2008). In this study, we have used the distinction between social desirability and social utility (Dubois & Beauvois, 2005): (a) for purposes of comparison with previous results about social acceptance of comparative optimism obtained in the literature (Le Barbenchon & Milhabet, 2005; Le Barbenchon, Milhabet, Steiner, & Priolo, 2008;Milhabet, Le Barbenchon, Molina, Cambon, & Steiner, 2012); (b) because this conceptualization is explicitly linked to evaluative judgment which is the focus of our attention in this paper. Indeed, in the literature, the analogs to social desirability and social utility such as communion and agency or warmth and competence are based on a psychological realism assumption.…”

Section: Outlook On the Future Social Acceptance And Social Judgmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, more frequently, non-depressed individuals display CO. These "narcissistic targets" are socially accepted on the dimension of social utility but rejected on the dimension of social desirability (Le Barbenchon & Milhabet, 2005; Le Barbenchon et al, 2008;Milhabet et al, 2012).…”

Section: Outlook On the Future Social Rejection And Moodmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 4 more Smart Citations

Comparative Pessimism or Optimism: Depressed Mood, Risk-Taking, Social Utility and Desirability

et al. 2015

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Comparative optimism can be defined as a self-serving, asymmetric judgment of the future. It is often thought to be beneficial and socially accepted, whereas comparative pessimism is correlated with depression and socially rejected. Our goal was to examine the social acceptance of comparative optimism and the social rejection of comparative pessimism in two dimensions of social judgment, social desirability and social utility, considering the attributions of dysphoria and risk-taking potential (studies 2 and 3) on outlooks on the future. In three experiments, the participants assessed either one (study 1) or several (studies 2 and 3) fictional targets in two dimensions, social utility and social desirability. Targets exhibiting comparatively optimistic or pessimistic outlooks on the future were presented as non-depressed, depressed, or neither (control condition) (study 1); non-depressed or depressed (study 2); and non-depressed or in control condition (study 3). Two significant results were obtained: (1) social rejection of comparative pessimism in the social desirability dimension, which can be explained by its depressive feature; and (2) comparative optimism was socially accepted on the social utility dimension, which can be explained by the perception that comparatively optimistic individuals are potential risk-takers.

show abstract

Section: Outlook On the Future Social Acceptance And Risk-taking Potsupporting

confidence: 65%

“…The converse was true for the optimistic comparative target (+ 34%). These percentages were the same as those of the study Milhabet et al (2012).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Outlook On the Future Social Acceptance And Social Judgmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Outlook On the Future Social Rejection And Moodmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Comparative Pessimism or Optimism: Depressed Mood, Risk-Taking, Social Utility and Desirability

et al. 2015

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Social Acceptance Measure

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

Comparative Pessimism or Optimism: Depressed Mood, Risk-Taking, Social Utility and Desirability

Comparative Pessimism or Optimism: Depressed Mood, Risk-Taking, Social Utility and Desirability

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About