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- Self-verification theory posits that individuals seek to confirm their positive or negative self-concepts. People are motivated to maintain consistency between how they view themselves and how others view them, even if these views are unfavorable. This drive for consistency helps stabilize one’s self-concept and provides a predictable world.
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Sep 19, 2023 · Self-verification theory proposes that people tend to gravitate towards relationships and settings that provide them with evaluations that confirm their self-views. People tend to prefer self-verifying evaluations and interactions with their partners.
May 27, 2020 · This project clarifies the notoriously ambiguous concept of reification through analytical descriptions of reificatory modes of experience in social context. The experience of social constructions as fixed and unchangeable (“subjective reification”) is manifest in four interrelated experiential modes: (1) doxa, taking the social world for ...
- Ryan Gunderson
- 2021
Oct 21, 2024 · It is a representational practice which functions to establish the self-evident reality of the concept in question, treating it as if it has the ontological status of a specific physical thing in an objective material world.
Mar 26, 2015 · The concept of reification (Verdinglichung) is a central category of critical social theory. In the Hegelian-Marxist tradition, from Marx via Lukács to the Frankfurt School, it is used to...
- Frederic Vandenberghe
Nevertheless, for those who possess inappropriately negative self-views, self-verification may thwart positive change and make their life situations harsher than they would be otherwise. In this chapter, I discuss the nature, history, and social implications of self-verification theory and research.
- Swann, B William
- 2012
Drawing on Prescott Lecky’s proposition that chronic self-views give people a strong sense of coherence, self-verification theory posits that people desire to be seen as they see themselves, even if their self-views are negative. Self-views can guide at least three stages of information processing: attention, recall, and interpretation.
Self-verification is a social psychological theory that asserts people want to be known and understood by others according to their firmly held beliefs and feelings about themselves, [1] that is self-views (including self-concepts and self-esteem).
