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- Citation and Abstract
Defensive pride and consensus: strength in imaginary numbers.
McGregor, Ian; Nail, Paul R.; Marigold, Denise C.; Kang, So-Jin
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Vol 89(6), Dec 2005, 978-996.
Failure (Study 1) and attachment separation thoughts (Study 2) caused exaggerated consensus estimates for personal beliefs about unrelated social issues. This compensatory consensus effect was most pronounced among defensively proud individuals, that is, among those with the combination of high explicit and low implicit self-esteem (Study 1) and the combination of high attachment avoidance and low attachment anxiety (Study 2). In Study 3, another form of defensive pride, narcissism, was associated with exaggerated consensual worldview defense after a system-injustice threat. In Study 4, imagined consensus reduced subjective salience of proud individuals' troubling thoughts. Compensatory consensus is seen as a kind of defensive self-affirmation that defensively proud people turn to for insulation from distressing thoughts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)
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- 10.1037/0022-3514.89.6.978
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