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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 02:55:01 JST Cat Hicks

   "Greenwald (1980) likened the self to a totalitarian regime that suppresses and distorts information to project an image of itself as good, powerful, and stable. However, unlike a totalitarian regime, people can be self-critical. They sometimes denigrate themselves more than outside observers do and believe that others judge them more harshly than they actually do (e.g., Savitsky et al. 2001)."

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 02:55:05 JST Cat Hicks

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     "People can feel guilty for events they have little control over (Doosje et al. 2006). Although they can spin idealized fantasies of their abilities, they can also give accurate self-appraisals at moments of truth (Armor & Sackett 2006). Storyteller rather than totalitarian regime seems an apt metaphor for the self."

     Source: "The Psychology of Change: Self-Affirmation and Social Psychological Intervention", Cohen & Sherman, 2014

     https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115137