Self-Evaluation, Persistence, and Performance Following Implicit Rejection: The Role of Trait Self-Esteem

By Kristin L. Sommer, Roy F. Baumeister. 2002

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Thwarting the Need to Belong: Understanding the Interpersonal and Inner Effects of Social Exclusion (2007, background): “Having participants imagine a rejection experience (Leary, Springer, Negel, Ansell, & Evans, 1998) has the same advantage, as does the procedure of exposing participants to subtle or even subliminal primes of the idea of rejection (Sommer & Baumeister, 2002).”
Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review. (2004, background): “…2000, discussed, p. 22) and evidence that exclusion feedback and primes can under some circumstances increase selfesteem (Nezlek et al., 1997; Sommer & Baumeister, 2002) and that people sometimes disidentify themselves from groups to protect self-esteem (e.g., Dechesne et al., 2000a) all…”
Many Labs 3: Evaluating participant pool quality across the academic semester via replication (2016, methodology): “To conceptually replicate the relation between persistence and conscientiousness, we used the unsolvable anagram task, which has been used as a measure of persistence (e.g., Aspinwall & Richter, 1999; Sommer & Baumeister, 2002).”
Reciprocal Effects of Self-Concept and Performance From a Multidimensional Perspective: Beyond Seductive Pleasure and Unidimensional Perspectives (2006, background): “Similarly, Sommer and Baumeister (2002) added to a growing body of experimental studies demonstrating that high self-esteem provides a potentially important buffer against the detrimental influences of failure and rejection on subsequent persistence, performance, and self-evaluation.”
Optimizing assurance: the risk regulation system in relationships. (2006, background): “…interpersonal rejection, the need to feel and be more included is sufficiently strong that their state self-esteem is sensitive to even unconsciously activated rejection cues (Sommer & Baumeister, 2002) or signs of a stranger’s disapproval (Nezlek, Kowalski, Leary, Blevins, & Holgate, 1997).”
Do people's self-views matter? Self-concept and self-esteem in everyday life. (2007, background): “That is, research suggests that in the wake of failure experiences , people with negative self-views are more likely to suffer emotional trauma and impaired motivation than are people with positive self-views (e.g., Dodgson & Wood, 1998; Greenberg et al., 1992; Sommer & Baumeister, 2002).”
Testing sociometer theory: Self-esteem and the importance of acceptance for social decision-making (2007, unknown): “Second, although interpersonal rejection is painful for everyone (Brown & Dutton, 1995; Leary, Haupt, Strausser, & Chokel, 1998; MacDonald & Leary, 2005), it is especially damaging to LSEs (Nezlek, Kowalski, Leary, Blevins, & Holgate, 1997; Sommer & Baumeister, 2002).”
Contingencies of self-worth and responses to negative interpersonal feedback (2008, background): “In addition, whereas the current study focused on receiving negative feedback among same-sex, unacquainted college students, future studies could examine the effects of experiencing disapproval in real-life friendships or in romantic relationships, as well as use other forms of social disapproval, s”
Family incivility and counterproductive work behavior: A moderated mediation model of self-esteem and emotional regulation ☆ (2016, background): “Second, some might argue that self-esteem is a trait that generally cannot be affected by situational factors (Sommer & Baumeister, 2002; Tice, 1991).”