Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Examining the Role of Fragile Self-esteem in Judgmental Biases and Risky Decision-Making

个人有时会表现出评判的偏见，这会导致过度冒险和不理想的表现结果。最近的研究表明，对保持积极自我看法的利己主义担忧会引发判断偏见，并导致随后的危险行为，从而破坏绩效结果。这项拟议的研究调查了这些偏见和危险行为是否更多地发生在自尊心很弱(而不是安全)的人身上，特别是在受到自我威胁之后。脆弱的高自尊包括良好但肤浅的自我价值感，这种自我价值感是不稳定的(即经历巨大的短期波动)、偶然的(即取决于达到特定结果或标准)，或与不和谐的低内隐(即主要是无意识的)自尊配对。相比之下，安全的高自尊包括真实的、根深蒂固的积极的自我价值感，这种感觉相对稳定，不是偶然的，并与一致的高内隐自尊配对。提出了两项研究。研究一考察了脆弱和安全的高自尊在过度自信和冒险行为中的作用。研究2考察了脆弱和安全的高自尊在高风险决策中的作用，作为对奖励的短视关注的函数。

Individuals sometimes exhibit judgmental biases that result in excessive risk-taking and suboptimal performance outcomes. Recent research has demonstrated that egotistic concerns about maintaining positive self-views can instigate judgmental biases and subsequent risky behaviors that undermine performance outcomes. The proposed research examines whether these biases and risky behavior occur more among people with fragile (as opposed to secure) high self-esteem, especially following ego-threats. Fragile high self-esteem involves favorable, but shallow, feelings of self-worth that are unstable (i.e., experience substantial short-term fluctuations), contingent (i.e., dependent upon meeting specific outcomes or standards), or paired with discordant low implicit (i.e., largely non-conscious) self-esteem. In contrast, secure high self-esteem involves genuine and well-anchored positive feelings of self-worth that are relatively stable, not contingent, and paired with congruent high implicit self-esteem. Two studies are proposed. Study 1 examines the role of fragile versus secure high self-esteem in overconfidence and risk-taking behaviors. Study 2 examines the role of fragile versus secure high self-esteem in risky decision-making as a function of myopic focus on reward.