Upward Self-Revision: Constructing Possible Selves
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Upward Self-Revision: Constructing Possible Selves
This research examined how and when people engage in upward self-revision to embrace new possible selves in response to social validation. First, the present study (n1⁄4 67) predicted and found that upward self-revision was more likely to occur when validations fully specify the meaning of the positive discrepancy between the desired self and the alternative self into the explicit prospect of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Basic and Applied Social Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0197-3533,1532-4834
DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2014.934451