Self-Enhancement: Food for Thought

By Constantine Sedikides, A. Gregg. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2008

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

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Moderators of the self-congruity effect on consumer decision-making: A meta-analysis (2012, background): “The H2 findings indicate that self-enhancement motives more strongly drive favorable consumer responses to self-congruent brands than self-consistency motives, following the general human tendency toward positive self-presentation (cf. Sedikides & Gregg, 2008).”
State Authenticity in Everyday Life (2016, background): “…congruence (i.e. not subjectively experienced authenticity) also points to overlap between the ideal and real selves (Sherman, Nave, & Funder, 2012), perhaps because these selves share content (Pelham & Swann, 1989) or because people hold positive self-illusions (Sedikides & Gregg, 2008).”
To nostalgize: mixing memory with affect and desire (2015, background): “The emotion is thought to solidify identity by serving as a reservoir of (mostly positive; Sedikides & Gregg, 2008) self-knowledge and to encourage identity exploration (Batcho, DaRin, Nave, & Yaworsky, 2008; Cavanaugh, 1989; Mills & Coleman, 1994).”
Memory as a self-protective mechanism (2009, background): “People think of themselves as worthwhile, competent, warm, moral, attractive, and loveable (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Sedikides & Gregg, 2008).”
Mnemic neglect: Selective amnesia of one’s faults (2016, background): “Thus, participants actively pursued definitive knowledge of their positive qualities, but, presumably in effort to avoid self-threat, evaded knowledge of their negative qualities (Gregg, Sedikides, & Gebauer, 2011; Sedikides & Gregg, 2008).”
Humble Beginnings: Current Trends, State Perspectives, and Hallmarks of Humility (2013, background): “Even among well-adjusted individuals, self-enhancement is common (Sedikides & Gregg, 2008).”
On the panculturality of self-enhancement and self-protection motivation: the case for the universality of self-esteem (2015, methodology): “To use a gastronomic analogy (Sedikides & Gregg, 2008), culture can affect how much one eats (e.g., observed effect: selfcriticism), but cannot affect how hungry one will get (e.g., underlyingmotive: self-enhancement).”
Why Do People Regulate Their Emotions? A Taxonomy of Motives in Emotion Regulation (2016, background): “Because people are motivated to attain positive information about the self (Sedikides & Gregg, 2008), they may be motivated to experience emotions that reflect positively on the self (i.e., epistemic enhancement motives).”
Nostalgia as a Resource for the Self (2012, result): “Despite the disproportionate number of neutral traits, participants still manifested a directional tendency to endorse more strongly positive traits, as would be expected from past research (Sedikides & Gregg, 2003, 2008).”
Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self: Hierarchical Ordering of the Tripartite Self (2011, background): “That is, the individual self is both the emotional and the motivational center of the person (Andersen et al. 1998; Sedikides and Skowronski 1995; Sedikides and Gregg 2008).”
Frequency, characteristics and functions of future‐oriented thoughts in daily life (2011, neutral): “With regard to affective content, there is considerable evidence that most people have a positive view of their personal future (for review, see Sedikides & Gregg, 2008; Taylor & Brown, 1988).”
The evolution and psychology of self-deception. (2011, background): “& Segerstrom, S. C. (2006) Dispositional optimism and coping: A”
A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self? (2012, background): “Finally, a particularly strategic means of self-protection is pre-emptive avoidance of threat in favor of enhancement (Sedikides & Gregg, 2008; Sedikides & Strube, 1997).”