Global self-evaluation as determined by the desirability and controllability of trait adjectives.

1985/12/01 by Mark D. Alicke · 32 citations
Decision Sciences · Mathematics · Psychology · #Cognitive and psychological constructs research #Controllability #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Mathematics #Psychology #Social desirability #Social psychology #Trait

paper · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.49.6.1621

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Citations

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• The totalitarian ego: Fabrication and revision of personal history.
• The “false consensus effect”: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes
• Acquiring self-knowledge: The search for feedback that fits.
• Unrealistic optimism about future life events.

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