Self-verification: The search for coherence

By W. Swann, Peter J. Rentfrow, Jennifer S. Guinn. 2003

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A Closer Look at Self-Esteem, Perceived Social Support, and Coping Strategy: A Prospective Study of Depressive Symptomatology Across the Transition to College (2014, background): “Individuals with low self-esteem may seek to confirm their negative self-views, focusing their attention on others' negative comments, retaining more detailed memories about negative interpersonal events, or even eliciting negative reactions from others (Swann & Read, 1981; Swann et al., 2003).”
Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions (2016, background): “The theory posits that the desire for coherence and understanding is so powerful that people will go to great lengths to confirm and maintain their self-views, “even if it means enduring pain and discomfort” (Swann & Buhrmester, 2012, p. 405).”
Helping and harming others in the workplace: The roles of personal values and abusive supervision (2011, background): “First, people selectively process information to verify their self-concept (Swann et al., 2002).”
A Self-Motives Perspective on Feedback-Seeking Behavior: Linking Organizational Behavior and Social Psychology Research (2007, background): “…that this issue is also heavily debated in social psychology, we believe it is up to future empirical research to examine which motive is dominant in the long-term and whether there is indeed a dominant motive (for a detailed debate of this issue, see Sedikides and Gregg 2003; Swann et al. 2002).”