Who Wants Out When the Going Gets Good? Psychological Investment and Preference for Self-Verifying College Roommates

By W. Swann, B. Pelham. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Identity Negotiation at Work (2009, background): “…identity that is being overridden by the discrepant situated identity as relatively uncertain, unclear (Campbell et al., 1996; Maracek & Mettee, 1972; Pelham & Swann, 1994; Swann & Ely, 1984; Swann, Pelham, & Chidester, 1988), or unimportant (Markus, 1977; Pelham, 1991; Swann & Pelham, 2002).”
Toward understanding understanding : The importance of feeling understood in relationships (2017, unknown): “…example, people seem to have an especially strong desire to have their self ‐ views understood when those self ‐ views are held with a high degree of importance or certainty (Pelham, 1991; Pelham & Swann, 1994; Swann & Pelham, 2002) or when they are culturally valued (Oishi, Koo, & Akimoto, 2008).”
The self and identity negotiation (2005, background): “Similarly, Swann & Pelham (2002) reported that targets were more committed to self-verifying roommates when their self-views were high in certainty and importance.”
Finding Value in Diversity: Verification of Personal and Social Self-Views in Diverse Groups (2004, background): “Moreover, when college students with firmly held self-views find that their current roommate perceives them more or less favorably than they perceive themselves, they make plans to find a new roommate (Swann & Pelham, 2002).”
Subjective Knowledge, Search Locations, and Consumer Choice (2004, background): “More recently, Bosson and Swann (2001) note that people seek evaluations from significant others that confirm their self-beliefs, and Swann and Pelham (2002) find that people strategically select into social environments that provide self-confirmatory feedback.”
Is More Fairness Always Preferred? Self-Esteem Moderates Reactions to Procedural Justice (2007, background): “Notably, in suggesting that procedural fairness communicates self-evaluative information to people, relational theory (Tyler & Lind, 1992) implies that procedural fairness could affect them more or less positively, depending upon their self-esteem and associated, self-related motives.”
Service employees and self-verification: The roles of occupational stigma consciousness and core self-evaluations (2014, methodology): “Self-verification theory and the empirical evidence that supports it (e.g. De La Ronde and Swann, 1998; Swann, 2012; Swann and Pelham, 2002; Wiesenfeld et al., 2007) concentrate on different directional effects for employees with positive versus less positive self-views that are dependent on the…”
Do people's self-views matter? Self-concept and self-esteem in everyday life. (2007, background): “Furthermore , when people's self-views are high in importance, they are more inclined to plan to remain with roommates who see them as they see themselves (Swann & Pelham, 2002).”
Interpersonal chemistry through negativity: Bonding by sharing negative attitudes about others (2006, background): “…whether that similarity lies in our preferences for food, our taste in films, our reactions to art or music, or even our attitudes about the self (Byrne, 1971; Byrne & Nelson, 1965; Newcomb, 1961; Pinel, Long, Landau, & Pyszczynski, 2004; Swann, De La Ronde, & Hixon, 1994; Swann & Pelham, 2002).”