Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection Motives

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Trait and State Authenticity Across Cultures (2014, background): “In addition to being a source of motivation (a need; Sedikides & Alicke, 2012), self-esteem can also be a state (Crocker & Park, 2004).”
Mnemic neglect: Selective amnesia of one’s faults (2016, unknown): “…typically have a low threshold for self-threat (Greenwald, 1980; Sedikides, 2012; vanDellen, Campbell, Hoyle, & Bradfield, 2011) and, as such, they guard against negative social evaluations (Campbell & Sedikides, 1999; Sedikides & Alicke, 2012; Sedikides, Gaertner, Luke, O’Mara, & Gebauer, 2013).”
On the panculturality of self-enhancement and self-protection motivation: the case for the universality of self-esteem (2015, background): “First, the BTAE is stronger on personally important than personally unimportant traits (Brown, 2012; Studies 1e4).”
A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self? (2012, background): “Motivated reasoning or defensive processing diffuses threat by rendering it less valid, diagnostic, or self-relevant (Alicke & Sedikides, 2011b; Campbell & Sedikides, 1999; Dunning et al., 1995; Sedikides & Alicke, 2012).”
A Three-Tier Hierarchy of Self-Potency: Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self (2013, background): “We zeroed in on protective responding (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Sedikides & Alicke, 2012).”