... a pathway to change self-esteem and its correlates. Based on theoretical models of automatic, proposition-based evaluative cognition, we hypothesize that automatic self-evaluation can be changed by raising the accessibility of specific truth-values in the presence of self-positive and self-negative...

... attitudes are more central to one’s identity than non-moralized attitudes. We also examined whether mental conflict between identity-central attitudes and gut feelings about the corresponding attitude objects would be related to lower self-esteem, finding mixed and weak evidence supporting that claim...

...Wenting Mu; Jing Luo; Sven Rieger; Ulrich Trautwein; Brent W. Roberts; Simine Vazire; Simine Vazire Much research has examined the interplay of depression and self-esteem in an effort to determine whether depression causes self-esteem (scar model), or vice versa (vulnerability model...

...Peter P. J. L. Verkoeijen; Marike G. Polak; Samantha Bouwmeester; Simine Vazire; Victoria Savalei Recently, Brummelman, Thomaes, Orobio de Castro, Overbeek, and Bushman ( 2014: Study 3 ) demonstrated that inflated praise benefits challenge seeking of children with high self-esteem, but harms...