Saturday 30 June 2007

..."the pursuit of self-esteem is a basic human motive (...) people may be motivated to convince themselves that they are respectable, good people, and doing so may at times entail misconstrual of facts. ...such self-deception can be so automatic that people may not be aware of it at all."

In Krosnick, Judd and Wittenbrink, 2005.

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