1973
DOI: 10.1037/h0033957
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Self- and interpersonal evaluations: Esteem theories versus consistency theories.

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“…Friendships can lead to selfenhancement via additional mechanisms. Individuals will feel more positively about the self when they receive glowing feedback from friends (Jones, 1973) or when they identify with a friend's success in a non-self-relevant domain (Tesser, 1988). The self may also be enhanced when a friend is outperformed in a self-relevant domain.…”
Section: Does Friendship Augment or Curtail Individual Self-enhancemementioning
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“…Friendships can lead to selfenhancement via additional mechanisms. Individuals will feel more positively about the self when they receive glowing feedback from friends (Jones, 1973) or when they identify with a friend's success in a non-self-relevant domain (Tesser, 1988). The self may also be enhanced when a friend is outperformed in a self-relevant domain.…”
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“…At the same time, research in social psychology has consistently demonstrated that people strive to maintain a positive self-concept both privately and publicly (Adler, 1930;Allport, 1955;Jones, 1973, Rogers, 1959Rosenberg, 1979). In fact, people strive to maintain a positive self-image even when doing so requires a degree of self-deception, pretense, or guile (Schlenker, 1982;Tajfel, 1982).…”
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“…This is not so. Several decades of research have produced mixed results, with some studies favoring self-consistency theory and others favoring self-enhancement theory (for reviews, see Jones, 1973;Shrauger, 1975;Swann, 1985). Shrauger (1975) attempted to bring order to this confusing state of affairs by suggesting that some dependent variables tended to produce consistency effects and others tended to produce enhancement effects.…”
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