Self-Enhancement and the Medial Prefrontal Cortex: The Convergence of Clinical and Experimental Findings [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2022 Self-enhancement (SE) is often overlooked as a fundamental cognitive ability mediated via the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC). Here, we present research that establishes the relationship between the PFC, SE, and the potential evolved beneficial mechanisms ...
Saeed Yasin +13 more
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Songs for the ego: Theorizing musical self-enhancement [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 This paper outlines a theoretical account of musical self-enhancement. I claim that listening to music serves as a resource for actively manipulating affective states so that a positive self-view is maintained and a sense of optimism is provided.
Paul eElvers
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The Impact of Self-Transcendence on Anxiety Among Chinese College Students: The Moderating Roles of Self-Enhancement and Dominant Self-Construal [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study explores the role of self-transcendence values in reducing anxiety among Chinese undergraduates, with a particular focus on how self-enhancement values and self-construal styles moderate this relationship. A total of 567 undergraduate students
Hong Wang, Tong Yue, Huajun Luo
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Self-Enhancement in Scientific Research: The Self-citation Bias [PDF]
Psychologica Belgica, 2011 A typical psychology article contains 3 to 9 self-citations, depending on the length of the reference list (10% of all citations). In contrast, cited colleagues rarely receive more than 3 citations.
Marc Brysbaert, Sinéad Smyth
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Values in Action: Unveiling the Impact of Self-Transcendence and Self-Enhancement on Domestic Consumption Choices [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesAgainst the backdrop of a global emphasis on supporting local businesses and fostering domestic consumption, this study aims to shed light on the influence of personal values on the intentions behind domestic-product consumption.
Zerui Zhao, Lu Huang
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On pancultural self-enhancement: well-adjusted Taiwanese self-enhance on personally valued traits [PDF]
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2008 Taiwanese participants made better-than-average judgments on collectivistic and individualistic traits, evaluated the personal importance of those traits, and completed measures of psychological adjustment (depression, perceived stress, subjective well ...
Alicke, M.D. +14 more
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Self-enhancement: Conceptualization and Assessment
Collabra: Psychology, 2017 Self-enhancement bias is conventionally construed as an unwarranted social comparison in social psychology and a misperception of social reality in personality psychology.
Joachim I. Krueger +2 more
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Dual Goals, Dual Agency: The Perils of Measurement and Control; Comment on “Dual Agency in Hospitals: What Strategies Do Managers and Physicians Apply to Reconcile Dilemmas Between Clinical and Economic Considerations?” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 This commentary to Waitzberg et al draws on the research stream on organizational goals in management to examine the findings they report, point out the correspondence of their findings and interpretation with existing theory, including development ...
Henrich R. Greve
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CSU-Net: Contour Semantic Segmentation Self-Enhancement for Human Head Detection
IEEE Access, 2023 The computer vision community has made tremendous progress in solving a variety of semantic image understanding tasks, such as classification and segmentation.
Mohamed Chouai, Petr Dolezel
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Christian self-enhancement. [PDF]
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2017 People overestimate themselves in domains that are central to their self-concept. Critically, the psychological status of this "self-centrality principle" remains unclear. One view regards the principle as an inextricable part of human nature and, thus, as universal and resistant to normative pressure. A contrasting view regards the principle as liable
Gebauer, Jochen +2 more
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