Who Wants Out When the Going Gets Good? Psychological Investment and Preference for Self-Verifying College Roommates
Abstract
The results of a field investigation indicate that people who are highly invested in their self-views (confidently held or personally important) are especially inclined to display a preference for verification of their self-views. Specifically, only those participants who were certain of their self-views or perceived them as important preferred roommates who confirmed their self-views. Such preferences were some-what stronger when the self-views...
Paper Details
Title
Who Wants Out When the Going Gets Good? Psychological Investment and Preference for Self-Verifying College Roommates
Published Date
Jul 1, 2002
Journal
Volume
1
Issue
3
Pages
219 - 233
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