Shallow Gratitude: Public and Private Acknowledgement of External Help in Accounts of Success
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Basic and Applied Social Psychology
- Vol. 16 (1-2) , 191-209
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.1995.9646109
Abstract
Subjects furnished public or private accounts of major recent success experiences. Public accounts contained many references to receiving help from other people, whereas private accounts were relatively devoid of such acknowledgements. Thus, expressions of gratitude and other references to external help may often be a superficial concession to self-presentational norms, expectations, and other interpersonal factors' that restrict the typical operation of self-serving biases.Keywords
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