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Our parents' wardrobes, like those of our children's before them, need frequent attention to preserve self-esteem.
Psychologists have identified a number of motives for lying, chief among which are the need to preserve self-esteem, the wish to avoid conflict, and the desire to manipulate others to behave in ways that are in one's self-interest.
This suggests that writing about a difficult personal experience through a self-compassionate lens may be more emotionally restorative than other approaches, including trying to preserve self-esteem or just letting it all out.
Our need to preserve self-esteem and hold onto a notion of who we are is never greater than when something happens that derails our self-story.
Unlike Paths 1-3, you can not attribute the decision to a voluntary choice so the only way you can preserve self-esteem is by denigrating the organization.
Writing in the compilation work The Psychology of The Simpsons, Robert M. Arkin and Philip J. Mazzocco reference a scene from the episode where Homer "argues with his own brain about a desired course of action" to illustrate self-discrepancy theory, the idea that "humans will go to great lengths to attain and preserve self-esteem".
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Cooke et al. [ 23] also reported an association between better insight and lower self-esteem (but not depression) and implied the influence of a psychological mechanism that preserves self-esteem.
To preserve their self-esteem, they will continue their BBC quarrel to ensure that BBC heads roll too as part of the general carnage.
Or even because, while trying to preserve our self-esteem, it actually weakens it.
Humans need to preserve their self-esteem, and publicly condemning those who violate their moral codes is one effective way of doing this.
The men were repeatedly singled out as important enough to take revenge on, a fact that helped them preserve their self-esteem.
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