Social Psychology
New findings from State University of New Jersey, Department of Psychology describe advances in social psychology
Published in Mental Health Law Weekly, December 1st, 2007
A report, 'Implicit self-esteem compensation: automatic threat defense,' is newly published data in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. According to a study from the United States, "Four experiments demonstrated implicit self-esteem compensation (ISEC) in response to threats involving gender identity (Experiment 1), implicit racism (Experiment 2), and social rejection (Experiments 3-4). Under conditions in which people might be expected to suffer a blow to self-worth, they instead showed high scores on 2 implicit self-esteem measures."
"There was no comparable effect on explicit self-esteem. However, ISEC was eliminated following self-affirmation...
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