The nature and function of self-esteem: Sociometer theory

By Mark R. Leary, Roy F. Baumeister. 2000

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The Chameleon Effect as Social Glue: Evidence for the Evolutionary Significance of Nonconscious Mimicry (2003, background): “Self-Esteem Leary and colleagues have proposed that self-esteem can be understood as a barometer of how people are doing with regard to their acceptance in social groups (Leary & Baumeister, 2000; Leary, Tambor, Terdal, & Downs, 1995).”
Contingencies of self-worth and responses to negative interpersonal feedback (2008, background): “Our interpretation is consistent with past research showing that LSE people are very concerned about how they appear to others and become interpersonally focused following ego threat (Baldwin & Sinclair, 1996; Leary & Baumeister, 2000; Vohs & Heatherton, 2001).”
Self‐esteem: a behavioural genetic perspective (2002, background): “Furthermore, self-esteem is positively related to self-determination (Deci & Ryan, 1995), effective coping (Bednar, Wells, & Peterson, 1989), and the formation of satisfactory social bonds ( Leary & Baumeister, 2000 ).”
Viewing attractive or unattractive same-sex individuals changes self-rated attractiveness and face preferences in women (2006, neutral): “In humans, self-esteem may reflect the extent to which an individual believes that he or she is valued as a partner by the opposite sex ( Leary & Baumeister 2000 ).”
Interpersonal Rejection as a Determinant of Anger and Aggression (2006, background): “Given that most ego-threats result from events that connote real or potential relational devaluation (Leary & Baumeister, 2000; Leary et al., 1995), we can just as easily say that these effects are caused by perceived relational devaluation as by threats to the individual's ego or self-esteem.”
Chronic social exclusion and evidence for the resignation stage (2017, background): “Self-esteem has been conceptualized as a mechanism by which one assesses her/his own inclusionary status (Leary & Baumeister, 2000).”
Identity Development, Personality, and Well‐Being in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood (2012, background): “Likewise, identity helps to define and solidify an individual’s reputation in the eyes of other members of a social group (Leary & Baumeister, 2000).”
Psychobiological Mechanisms Underlying the Social Buffering of the HPA Axis: A Review of Animal Models and Human Studies across Development (2013, background): “Self-esteem monitors one’s social acceptance and interpersonal effectiveness and can change in response to cues about one’s relational value (Leary & Baumeister, 2000; Leary, Tambor, Terdal, & Downs, 1995).”
School Satisfaction of Elementary School Children: The Role of Performance, Peer Relations, Ethnicity and Gender (2002, neutral): “Moreover, social exclusion has been found to be more strongly related to self-evaluation than is social inclusion (Leary and Baumeister, 2000).”
Why inconsistent leadership is regarded as procedurally unfair: the importance of social self‐esteem concerns (2003, background): “…(e.g. Mischel, 1973) suggests that the psychological effect of acting in a consistent (or inconsistent) manner depends on the extent to which people may perceive inconsistent social relationships as threatening to one’s self-worth, that is, those with low self-esteem (see Leary & Baumeister, 2000).”
Reactions to Discrimination, Stigmatization, Ostracism, and Other Forms of Interpersonal Rejection (2009, positive): “The negative emotions that arise from perceived rejection are reliably accompanied by decreases in state self-esteem (for reviews, see Blackhart, Knowles, & Bieda, 2007; Leary, 2006; Leary & Baumeister, 2000).”
Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism (2007, background): “Of course, we already know quite a lot about theory of mind and the evolution of selfesteem (Leary and Baumeister 2000), so to demonstrate that they were shaped by social selection will require predicting unnoticed aspects and looking to see if they are there.”