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Directions and beliefs of self-presentational bias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

David C. Funder
David C. Funder
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521. [email protected]://rap.ucr.edu
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Abstract

The target article tends to conflate self-deception and self-enhancement, but biased self-presentation can be negative as well as positive. Self-deceiving self-diminishers may be depressed and non-self-deceiving self-diminishers may project false modesty. The article's otherwise brilliant argument for the advantages of self-deceptive self-enhancement for deceiving others may underemphasize the risks it entails for poor decision making.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , February 2011 , pp. 23
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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