The five experiments reported here demonstrate that authenticity is directly linked to morality. We found that experiencing inauthenticity, compared with authenticity, consistently led participants to feel more immoral and impure. This link from inauthenticity to feeling immoral produced an increased desire among participants to cleanse themselves and to engage in moral compensation by behaving...

This note describes some additional information that complements the main BayesAct-S model described in [2] 1 Comparing Situational and Fundamental Self Sentiments In the paper we use the following function to measure inauthenticity: ia(s) = ln ( Pr(ss) Pr(sf ) ) (1) However, the original statement of the theory in [1] hypothesises that inauthenticity is a difference, from which we derived that...

Integrating insights from cultural sociology and identity theory, I explore the mental health consequences of adolescent romantic relationship inauthenticity--incongruence between thoughts/feelings and actions within romantic contexts. Applying sequence analysis to National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data, I measure relationship inauthenticity by quantifying the extent to which the...

ion in which reflection subordinates him (TA 85). In other words, the individual becomes mere thing, possessed by a vaporous “aggregate” that can think and choose for him; only the collective can determine how things will go, so there seems to be no individual responsibility. In this special sense, “the public” is defined as the opposite of free association from earnest passion, or authentic de...

Generally, psychologists consider state authenticity - that is, the subjective sense of being one's true self - to be a unitary and unidimensional construct, such that (a) the phenomenological experience of authenticity is thought to be similar no matter its trigger, and (b) inauthenticity is thought to be simply the opposing pole (on the same underlying construct) of authenticity. Using latent...