|
|||||
|
|
Self-esteem depends on the beholder: Effects of a subtle social value cue |
|
| Authors: | Max Weisbuch Stacey A. Sinclair Collette P. Eccleston |
| Affiliation: | a Tufts University, Psychology Department, 490 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA b Princeton University, Department of Psychology, Princeton, NJ 08540-1010, USA c Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Social Science and Policy Studies, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01604, USA d Syracuse University, Department of Psychology, Huntington Hall, Syracuse, NY, 13244, USA |
| Abstract: | The idea that self-esteem functions as a gauge or “sociometer” of social value [Leary, M. R., Baumeister, R. F. (2000). The nature and function of self-esteem: Sociometer theory. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 32, pp. 1-62). San Diego: Academic Press] is supported by research on direct social feedback. To examine if the sociometer model is relevant to more subtle social value cues, the implicit self-esteem of women was assessed a week after an interaction with an experimenter. Consistent with the sociometer model, Week 2 self-esteem depended on a subtle social value cue encountered during Week 1. When the Week 1 experimenter wore a t-shirt celebrating larger bodies (i.e., “everyBODY is beautiful”), heavier women had higher self-esteem than lighter women in Week 2. As hypothesized, this effect was relationship-specific, occurring only when the same experimenter administered Week 1 and 2 sessions. |
| Keywords: | Self-esteem Sociometer Priming Social tuning |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ | |