Indeed, bigging it up (known technically as self-enhancement) may be necessary there.
As it turns out, Martin's self-enhancement strategy fizzles out, and he's forced to kick things up a notch by hiring a life coach, Pandora Barry.
We approach their books, whether they're actors, directors or playwrights, in the hope of meeting artful exaggeration and likable self-enhancement.
" 'Jesus loves you, but I'm his favorite.' " For all that, an abiding feeling of moral superiority is intrinsic to what some psychologists call self-enhancement.
People take MOOCs for all kinds of reasons, ranging from a desire for job training and retraining, skills development, professional development, self-enhancement, or just pleasure.
Dr. Neugarten's work showed that instead of retiring and stagnating, older people had become more likely to move from the suburbs back to the city in search of opportunities, self-enhancement and more education.
Oprah is a real-life extension of this fantasy, bestowing gifts on her television audiences -- food, CD's, Palm Pilots -- and opportunities for self-enhancement and self-discipline on all her fans.
"The drive for the self-enhancement of brain power is likely to be as strong if not stronger as in the realms of enhancement of beauty or sexual function".
"It's when a person's typically rosy self-view is temporarily threatened that self-enhancement processes, such as finding people to 'hate' online, are triggered," Professor Jordan said in an interview.
So whether or not people actually are better than average in terms of a particular trait cannot generally be judged unequivocally perhaps their claim actually is rational rather than self-enhancement?
The other dimension contrasts self-enhancement and self transcendence values.
