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No, I’M Really, Really Bad At Math: Competition For Self-Verification, Alexandra E. Wesnousky
No, I’M Really, Really Bad At Math: Competition For Self-Verification, Alexandra E. Wesnousky
Honors Theses
In their theory of self-verification, Swann and Read’s (1981) postulate that people like feedback that is consistent with their self-concept. Researchers have yet to examine what happens when two individuals are both seeking feedback from each other to verify their self-concept on the same domain. When individuals are competing against someone to verify a similarly held self-concept, they should try to seek more polarized feedback, especially when the domain is highly important. In two experiments, participants expected to receive computer feedback on their responses to identity-related questions, either based on their own responses or on how they compared to the …