Agreeable fancy or disagreeable truth? Reconciling self-enhancement and self-verification.

1989/01/01 by William B. Swann, Brett W. Pelham, Douglas S. Krull · 5 citations
Psychology · #Applied psychology #Cognitive psychology #Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion #Epistemology #Psychology #Self evaluation #Self-concept #Self-disclosure #Self-enhancement #Self-reference #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.57.5.782

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