Inclusion-exclusion of positive and negative past selves: Mood congruence as information
The current research challenges the widespread truism that recalling a positive self necessarily increases self-esteem, whereas recalling a negative self necessarily decreases self-esteem. Four experiments demonstrate that chronically happy people show a relative increase in self-esteem by recalling...
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| Language: | English |
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2008-08.
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