Self-Enhancement: Food for Thought
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- 1 March 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Vol. 3 (2), 102-116
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2008.00068.x
Abstract
Self-enhancement denotes a class of psychological phenomena that involve taking a tendentiously positive view of oneself. We distinguish between four levels of ...Keywords
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