Compensatory self-inflation: A response to the threat to self-regard of public failure.

1985/07/01 by Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski · 225 citations
Decision Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Cognitive psychology #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Emotions and Moral Behavior #Inflation (cosmology) #Psychology #Psychology of Social Influence #Self-concept #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.49.1.273

published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 49(1), 273-280 (American Psychological Association)

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