Cognitive consequences of affirming the self: The relationship between self-affirmation and object construal.
Cognitive consequences of affirming the self: The relationship between self-affirmation and object construal.
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肯定自我的认知后果：自我肯定与客体解释之间的关系。
DOI：
10.1016/j.jesp.2009.05.002
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Trope,Yaacov
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作者：
Wakslak,CherylJ;Trope,Yaacov
先前的研究表明，肯定一个人的重要价值观是保护一个人的整体自我完整性的一种有力方式，允许对自我相关信息进行非防御性处理。在一系列的四项研究中，我们发现，除了任何自我缓冲效应之外，思考一个人的价值观以及为什么它们更重要，更普遍地将认知处理转向高级和结构化思维。自我肯定导致参与者感知更大程度的结构在他们的自我（研究1），越来越多地识别行动的最终状态（研究2），更强烈地区分主要和次要对象的功能（研究3），并执行更好的任务需要抽象，结构化的思维比那些需要面向细节，具体的思维。总之，这些发现表明，思考重要的价值观有助于个人构建信息并关注大局。
Previous research suggests that affirming one’s important values is a powerful way of protecting one’s general self integrity, allowing non-defensive processing of self-relevant information. In a series of four studies linking self-affirmation with construal level, we find that in addition to any self buffering effect, thinking about one’s values and why they are important more generally shifts cognitive processing towards superordinate and structured thinking. Self-affirmation leads participants to perceive a greater degree of structure within their selves (Study 1), to increasingly identify actions in terms of their end-states (Study 2), to more strongly distinguish between primary and secondary object features (Study 3) and to perform better on tasks requiring abstract, structured thinking than those requiring detail-oriented, concrete thinking. Together, these findings suggest that thinking about important values helps individuals to structure information and focus on the big picture.