Self-verification processes: How we sustain our self-conceptions

1981/07/01 by William B. Swann, William B Swann, Stephen J. Read +1 · 9 citations
Psychology · #Attachment and Relationship Dynamics #Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

paper · doi:10.1016/0022-1031(81)90043-3

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