Memory as a self-protective mechanism

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Mnemic neglect: Selective amnesia of one’s faults (2016, methodology): “Table 1b shows the average pattern of MNEs (from Wells, 2012) that emerged from the corpus of experiments reviewed by Sedikides and Green (2009).”
Trait and State Authenticity Across Cultures (2014, background): “For example, people’s enduring goals or motives shape their autobiographical memories (McLean, Pasupathi, & Pals, 2007; Sedikides & Green, 2009; Sutin & Robins, 2005).”
On the panculturality of self-enhancement and self-protection motivation: the case for the universality of self-esteem (2015, background): “…(but not negative feedback about unimportant self-attributes or about attributes pertaining to another person) is remembered poorly compared to positive feedback about important selfattributes (Sedikides & Green, 2009), is observed both in the West and the East (Tan, Newman, & Zhang, 2014).”
Psychological Momentum: Why Success Breeds Success (2014, background): “In general, people readily process positive feedback because it affirms their self-views, whereas they refrain from negative feedback because it threatens their self-perceptions (Sedikides & Green, 2009).”