Experimental manipulations of self-affirmation: A systematic review

By A. McQueen, William M. P. Klein. 2006

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Self-Affirmation: Understanding the Effects (2013, background): “A self-affirmation is an act that demonstrates a person’s adequacy (Cohen & Sherman, forthcoming), and there are many experimental operationalizations of self-affirmation (McQueen & Klein, 2006).”
Developing and Testing a Self-affirmation Manipulation (2009, background): “Surprisingly little attention has been paid to these issues (McQueen & Klein, 2006).”
Self-affirmation and self-control: affirming core values counteracts ego depletion. (2009, background): “…to ponder why their core values are important to them (as we did in the previous experiments and as is typical in most self-affirmation experiments; McQueen & Klein, 2006) seems likely to promote the kind of broad-minded, bigpicture perspective that is associated with good self-control.”
Elevation Puts Moral Values Into Action (2012, background): “Although Sachdeva and colleagues (2009) did not explicitly interpret their findings in this way, their work can be viewed as applying the general principle of self-affirmation when facing threat (McQueen & Klein, 2006; Steele, 1988) to the moral domain.”
Personality Change: Implications for Organizational Behavior (2018, background): “…selfaffirmation activities, including writing about core personal values, can help shape individuals’ personalities, both encouraging individuals to appraise life andwork threats in a positive, nondefensiveway and shaping people’s psychological self-appraisals (Dweck, 2008; McQueen & Klein, 2006).”
The Role of Gender Identities and Stereotype Salience With the Academic Performance of Male and Female College Athletes (2009, unknown): “According to recent reviews of the self-affirmation literature (McQueen & Klein, 2006) across a wide variety of threatening situations, participants who were provided the opportunity to reflect on their positive self-attributes either before or after a threat to an important self-identity showed…”
The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions (2019, background): “The control group was given a summary of the surge but 2Writing about important values is common in self-affirmation studies (McQueen and Klein 2006). no information about its effects.”
An affirmed self and a better apology: The effect of self-affirmation on transgressors' responses to victims. (2014, background): “As a result, self-affirmation yields substantial benefits in a variety of domains (for a review, see Cohen & Sherman, 2014; McQueen & Klein, 2006).”
The Psychology of the Affirmed Learner: Spontaneous Self-Affirmation in the Face of Stress. (2016, methodology): “Though self-affirmation can take a number of forms (McQueen & Klein, 2006), the most common method used in experimental laboratory and field settings is values affirmation, in which people reflect in writing on core values, such as religion or relationships.”
Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem: a systematic literature review (2019, methodology): “Finally, for the (3) self-reflection process, either being exposed to one’s own SNS content (Steele, 1988), creating own SNS content (McQueen & Klein, 2006), or being exposed to former conversations with others were used as selection criterion.”
The psychology of change: self-affirmation and social psychological intervention. (2014, background): “Although many inductions of self-affirmation exist, the most studied experimental manipulation has people write about core personal values (McQueen & Klein 2006; cf. Napper et al. 2009).”
The promise and peril of self-affirmation in de-escalation of commitment (2008, methodology): “Together, the results of Studies 1 and 2 are consistent with a host of previous studies that have demonstrated a reduction in self-defensive judgments and decisions following self-affirmation (Koole et al., 1999; Steele & Liu, 1983; Steele et al., 1993; Tesser & Cornell, 1991; see McQueen & Klein, ”
Protecting the self through consumption: Status goods as affirmational commodities (2010, methodology): “Reflecting on an unimportant value does not provide the opportunity to repair self-worth (see McQueen & Klein, 2006; Steele & Liu, 1983).”
The Psychology of Self‐defense: Self‐Affirmation Theory (2006, background): “Operationally, self‐aYrmations are typically ideographic, in that people first report an important value or life domain, and then they are given the opportunity either to write an essay about it or to complete a scale or exercise that allows them to assert its importance (McQueen & Klein, 2005).”
Feeling Better But Doing Worse: Effects of Facebook Self-Presentation on Implicit Self-Esteem and Cognitive Task Performance (2013, methodology): “…about one’s most important values, receiving positive feedback on important dimensions of the self-concept, simply thinking about one’s family and friends (McQueen & Klein, 2006), and, critically for the present article, examining one’s Facebook profile self-presentation (Toma & Hancock, 2013).”
Reconciling self-protection with self-improvement: Self-affirmation theory. (2011, background): “It certainly seems plausible, considering the basic values affirmation that is most commonly employed as a self-affirmation manipulation (McQueen & Klein, 2006).”