ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Tell Me Who You Are and I Will Tell You the Situation: Agentic Positively Valenced Self-Presentations and Communal Negatively Valenced Self-Presentations
- Clara Amato
Region Blekinge - Sverker Sikström
Lund University - Danilo Garcia
Region Blekinge - Danilo Garcia
University of Gothenburg
Abstract
We analyzed, using quantitative semantics, freely generated self-presentations by LinkedIn users randomly assigned to a recruitment or a friendship situation. Our findings account for how different situations elicit self-enhancement and self-protection through: (1) an agentic and positively valenced self-presentation (recruitment condition) or (2) a communal negatively valenced self-presentation (friendship condition).
Organizational/Workplace/Leadership
