The dark side of self-affirmation: Confirmation bias and illusory correlation in response to threatening information

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1143-1153

  Munro, Geoffrey D ^a   Stansbury, Jessica A ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmation bias; Illusory correlation; Motivated reasoning; Self affirmation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHARACTER; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ILLUSION; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE EVENT; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY TEST; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHARACTER; CULTURE; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY TESTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 69949118901     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209337163     Document Type: Article

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