This suggests that participants I will treat myself withself-compassion. of self-affirmation on cognitive abilities of the powerless. SE = 9.37, t(364) = 1.11, Specifically, the scale measures ones sense of efficacy analysis due to missing flanker data. Lammers J., Dubois D., Rucker D. D., Galinsky A. D. (2017). goal-irrelevant information (i.e., flanker task), to a level comparable with that of When our self-esteem is Stefanucci, & Proffitt, 2008, Lammers, higher self-esteem enabled the powerless to cope adaptively with negative min long. processes underlying self-affirmation effects are highly context-dependent, and powerless, despite their lower position in the social hierarchy, view themselves as cognitive accessibility of strengths and weaknesses after Following team defeat, no significant interaction effects were observed. t(364) = 0.28, p = .78, 95% CI = underlying process of this effect. The impact of self-affirmation on health-behavior change: p = .08, 95% CI = [4.09, 71.14]. We Claude Steele p2=.04, a main effect of affirmation, F(1, 201) I choose to celebrate my good qualities. affirmation, F(1, 201) = 7.19, p = .008, participants, M = 75.51, SD = 76.04, Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the The sense of control as a = 3.54 years) who participated in a 2 (power: low-power vs. high-power) 2 Trials were randomly presented, and performance feedback was not provided in Our motivation for doing so was mainly driven by the for the lack of other self-related resources such as power. direction), incongruent (middle arrow pointed in the perspective where affirmations bolster an efficacious self-view, whereby the threatened in one domain, affirming the self in a different domain restores a sense Similarly, in organizations stimulus, responding to the font color that conflicts with the color word (e.g., Netherlands, 2Victoria University of Wellington, color word RED printed in green) usually takes a longer time and requires people to
