Your Money or Your Self-Esteem : Threatened Egotism Promotes Costly Entrapment in Losing Endeavors  

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Baumeister, Roy F. ; Uqing, Zhang

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 32 no. 07 (2006), page 881-893.
Topik: egoism; ego threat; self - esteem; egotism; entrapment; decision making
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The present research explored egotism - maintaining favorable views of the self - as a motivation underlying entrapment in losing endeavors. Four studies suggested that threatened selfesteem would cause decision makers to invest and lose more money in a previously chosen course of action. Ego - threatened participants consistently lost more money than nonthreatened participants across diverse entrapping situations regardless of whether the outcome was ostensibly determined by luck (Experiments 1 and 4), ability (Experiment 2), or interpersonal competition (Experiment 3). Thus, pursuing favorable views of the self could be costly to decision makers' financial well - being and may produce self - defeating behaviors.

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