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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Main Authors: Gebauer, Jochen E. (Author), Broemer, Philip (Author), Haddock, Geoffrey (Author), von Hecker, Ulrich (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2008-08.
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