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2013 (English)In: European Journal of Personality, ISSN 0890-2070, E-ISSN 1099-0984, Vol. 27, no 6, p. 621-633Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Do actual and perceived self-enhancement entail differing social impressions (i.e. interpersonal evaluations)? Actual self-enhancement represents unduly positive self-views, as gauged by an objective criterion (in this case, IQ scores), whereas perceived self-enhancement involves the extent to which an individual is seen by informants (i.e. peers or observers) as self-enhancing. In an online survey (N=337), a laboratory experiment (N=75), and a round-robin study (N=183), we tested the effects of actual and perceived intellectual self-enhancement on (informant-rated) emotional stability, social attractiveness, and social influence. Actual self-enhancers were rated as emotionally stable, socially attractive, and socially influential. High perceived self-enhancers were judged as socially influential, whereas low-to-moderate perceived self-enhancers were deemed emotionally stable and socially attractive. Privately entertained, illusory positive (even extreme) self-beliefs confer social benefits, whereas being perceived as self-enhancing buys social influence at the cost of being despised. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords
self-enhancement, person perception, likability, social influence, emotional stability
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-32925 (URN)10.1002/per.1934 (DOI)000327735000009 ()2-s2.0-84888801866 (Scopus ID)
2014-01-032014-01-032023-12-08Bibliographically approved