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Social desirability and the manipulation of self-concepts. How the pressures of others can contribute to a shift in self image.
Title: Social desirability and the manipulation of self-concepts. How the pressures of others can contribute to a shift in self image.
Category: Social Sciences / Psychology
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Social desirability and the manipulation of self-concepts. How the pressures of others can contribute to a shift in self image.
People crave success. Kunda and Sanitioso (1989) stated that our self-concept is malleable, that the desire to be more like others is enough for us to make subtle changes to our self-concept. 102 university students were each assigned to one of two groups. Each group was informed that either extraversion or introversion was responsible for academic success by way of fictitious study. They were then asked to rate the strength of characteristics in themselves. It was found …showed first 75 words of 1888 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1888 total…B Goethals GR, Kavanaugh, R. D. and Solomon. R. (1989) Psychology (3rd Edition) Illinois: Scott Forman and Company, ·Kunda, Z. and Sanitioso, R. (1989). Motivated changes in the self-concept. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 272-285 ·Kunda, Z. Sanitioso, R. and Fong G. T. (1990). Motivated recruitment of autobiographical memories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 229-241.
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·Sanitioso, B. Lecture Notes. Social Psychology Melbourne University Semester 2, 1998.
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