APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Self-Esteem Relates to Expecting Others to See Us How We See Ourselves
- Ashley Araiza
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York - Antonio Freitas
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Abstract
Across three studies, self-esteem related positively to coherence between participants’ self-evaluations and their expected evaluations by other people. The effects remained robust when controlling statistically for self-concept clarity and for fear of negative evaluation. These results suggest that high self-esteem relates to an expectation of shared reality of one’s identity.
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