self-enhancement

Potential areas of self-enhancement differ in terms how important, or central, they are to a person.

Researchers have taken this as evidence for "boundaries on self-enhancement."

There is much evidence to support a culture-specific view of self-enhancement.

Self-enhancement is a type of motivation that works to make people feel good about themselves and to maintain self-esteem.

Specifically, self-enhancement is not correlated with academic success or graduation rates in college.

The first aspect in self-enhancement is the need to maintain and enhance self-esteem.

The results provided evidence for self-protection but not for self-enhancement.

In self-enhancement, the impressions individuals hold about themselves are often biased towards a positive direction.

Self-enhancement can also affect the causal explanations people generate for social outcomes.

This differs from in masculine cultures, where self-enhancement leads to self-esteem.

Both the extent and the type of self-enhancement vary across a number of dimensions.

Heine on the other hand describes self-enhancement as a predominantly Western motive.

I had another glimpse of Morris' oddly naive spiritual self-enhancement while working on this article.

There is controversy over whether self-enhancement is adaptive or maladaptive.

There are nevertheless signs that self-enhancement is not completely absent in interdependent cultures.

It is one of the motives that drive self-evaluation, along with self-verification and self-enhancement.

Self-enhancement involves a preference for positive over negative self-views.

Self-enhancement can occur in private or in public.

Self-enhancement thrives upon the vagueness or ambiguity of evidence.

The authors then conducted one final experiment looking at the validation of self-enhancement when reflecting on the self.

Self-enhancement does not just occur at random.

The easier it is to verify a behaviour or trait, the less that trait will be subject to self-enhancement.

Many different materialisations of self-enhancement can occur depending on such social contexts:

It is an exaggeration to say that self-enhancement is the dominant self motive.

Hence it was not surprising that people prone to self-enhancement would exaggerate how well-adjusted they are.