The Intrinsic Self and Defensiveness: Evidence that Activating the Intrinsic Self Reduces Self-Handicapping and Conformity

By Jamie Arndt, Jeff Schimel, J. Greenberg, T. Pyszczynski. 2002

124 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Applied Psychology

1. Noah J. Goldstein
2. Robert B. Cialdini
3. A. McQueen
4. William M. P. Klein
5. Phillip R. Shaver
6. Shiri Lavy
7. Elisabetta Cherchi
8. S. van der Linden

In Social Psychology

1. Phillip R. Shaver
2. Mario Mikulincer
3. Shiri Lavy
4. Clifford D. Saron
5. Noah J. Goldstein
6. A. McQueen
7. William M. P. Klein
8. Robert B. Cialdini

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Phillip R. Shaver
2. Mario Mikulincer
3. Noah J. Goldstein
4. Robert B. Cialdini
5. A. McQueen
6. William M. P. Klein
7. Shiri Lavy
8. S. van der Linden

Citations in the corpus

• Experimental manipulations of self-affirmation: A systematic review (2006, methodology): “We excluded several studies from our review because their manipulation of the self-concept was not in conjunction with a self-threat (Arndt, Schimel, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski, 2002 ; Harber, 2005 ; McGuire & McGuire, 1996 ).”
• Social influence: compliance and conformity. (2004, background): “…individuals who focused on a fundamental foundation of their self-worth, such as a selfattribute, were less likely to conform later to others’ opinions than were control condition participants or those who focused on an external source of self-esteem, such as an achievement (Arndt et al. 2002).”
• Psychological threat and extrinsic goal striving (2008, unknown): “Participants attended a questionnaire session in which they first engaged in a guided visualization task ( Arndt et al. 2002 ) and then completed the Aspiration Index (Kasser and Ryan 1996).”
• Social Foundations of the Capacity for Mindfulness: An Attachment Perspective (2007, background): “Two experiments have shown that security priming reduces defensive self-enhancement ( Arndt, Schimel, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski, 2002 ; Schimel, Arndt, Pyszczynski, & Greenberg, 2001 ).”
• Mental Representations of Attachment Security: Theoretical Foundation for a Positive Social Psychology. (2005, background): “Arndt et al. (2002) focused on defensive self-handicapping – emphasizing factors that can impair one’s performance so as to avert the damage to self-esteem that can result from attributing negative outcomes to lack of ability (Berglas & Jones, 1978).”
• Not all self-affirmations were created equal: The cognitive and social benefits of affirming the intrinsic (vs. extrinsic) self (2004, unknown): “However, because Study 1 and most previous research (Arndt et al., 2002; Schimel et al., 2001) has found that intrinsic primes reduce defensive responses relative to extrinsic and neutral prime conditions, Study 2 focused only on the intrinsic and extrinsic prime conditions.”