When Failure Elevates Self-Esteem
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 16 (2) , 200-209
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167290162002
Abstract
Subjects were induced to play the role of a reprehensible person in response to a series of moral dilemmas. They then learned from audience feedback that they had succeeded or failed in their role-playing task. High self-monitors showed higher self-esteem after success than failure; low self-monitors showed higher self-esteem after failure than success. Results are discussed in terms of the relative importance of self-presentational content in coping with the implications of audience feedbackKeywords
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