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Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory: self-esteem differences in the experience and anticipation of successJoanne V Wood
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:764-80. 2005..LSEs were more anxious than HSEs after succeeding, success improved HSEs' self-relevant thoughts but not LSEs', and LSEs focused more on success's negative aspects...
Positive self-statements: power for some, peril for othersJoanne V Wood
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Psychol Sci 20:860-6. 2009..Repeating positive self-statements may benefit certain people, but backfire for the very people who "need" them the most...
This mood is familiar and I don't deserve to feel better anyway: mechanisms underlying self-esteem differences in motivation to repair sad moodsJoanne V Wood
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:363-80. 2009..These results have implications for the emotion regulation, self-esteem, and social justice literatures...
Deconstructing the "reign of error": interpersonal warmth explains the self-fulfilling prophecy of anticipated acceptanceDanu Anthony Stinson
University of Waterloo, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:1165-78. 2009..Study 2 demonstrated that situational cues that reduced the risk of rejection also increased socially pessimistic participants' warmth and thus improved their social outcomes...
The regulatory function of self-esteem: testing the epistemic and acceptance signaling systemsDanu Anthony Stinson
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 99:993-1013. 2010....
The cost of lower self-esteem: testing a self- and social-bonds model of healthDanu Anthony Stinson
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 94:412-28. 2008..In both studies, alternative explanations to the model were tested...
Savoring versus dampening: self-esteem differences in regulating positive affectJoanne V Wood
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:566-80. 2003....
Basic personality dispositions, self-esteem, and personal goals: an approach-avoidance analysisSara A Heimpel
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers 74:1293-320. 2006..The implications of these findings for our understanding of basic personality dispositions, self-esteem, and personal goals are discussed...
When social networking is not working: individuals with low self-esteem recognize but do not reap the benefits of self-disclosure on FacebookAmanda L Forest
University of Waterloo, Canada
Psychol Sci 23:295-302. 2012..We found that although people with low self-esteem considered Facebook an appealing venue for self-disclosure, the low positivity and high negativity of their disclosures elicited undesirable responses from other people...
In search of clarity: self-esteem and domains of confidence and confusionDanu Anthony Stinson
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:1541-55. 2008..These findings suggest that everyone, regardless of self-esteem, has self-concept domains of relative confidence and confusion...
Social acceptance and self-esteem: tuning the sociometer to interpersonal valueDanu B Anthony
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:1024-39. 2007..As hypothesized, self-esteem was generally more attuned to appearances than to communal qualities, but interdependent social roles predicted heightened attunement of self-esteem to qualities like kindness and understanding...
Do people with low self-esteem really want to feel better? Self-esteem differences in motivation to repair negative moodsSara A Heimpel
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
J Pers Soc Psychol 82:128-47. 2002..Studies 4 and 5 explored possible reasons why LSE people are less motivated than HSE people to repair their negative moods...
Remembering everyday experience through the prism of self-esteemTamlin Conner Christensen
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:51-62. 2003..These findings strengthen the view that self-esteem is a rich source of knowledge about the self that can influence memory for some kinds of autobiographical experience...
Happy mood decreases self-focused attentionJeffrey D Green
Soka University, Vejo, CA 92656, USA
Br J Soc Psychol 42:147-57. 2003..Relative to neutral mood, happy mood decreased self-focused attention...
