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The Role of Group Status and Personal Repute in Information use in Self-evaluation

Koehrsen, Jennifer

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2004, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Psychology (Arts and Sciences).

Many individuals often believe that they are better off than their fellow man in numerous domains such as intelligence. Three studies investigate the role that two factors - one’s ingroup’s status and one’s personal status within that group - play in self-evaluation. It was hypothesized that individuals who learned their ingroup was of low status would continue to hold elevated self-views even when their own status within the group was low. This hypothesis was supported in part. Participants overall overestimated their abilities. However, students who reported the lowest GPAs overestimated their abilities when asked to estimate their potential GPA if they were to attend a school better than their own, but underestimated their abilities when asked to project to a school worse than their own. Meanwhile, students reporting the highest GPAs underestimated their abilities at both schools. Differing attributional style was investigated as a potential explanation for this surprising reversal.

Mark Alicke (Advisor)
100 p.

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  • Koehrsen, J. (2004). The Role of Group Status and Personal Repute in Information use in Self-evaluation [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1108062138

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Koehrsen, Jennifer. The Role of Group Status and Personal Repute in Information use in Self-evaluation. 2004. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1108062138.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Koehrsen, Jennifer. "The Role of Group Status and Personal Repute in Information use in Self-evaluation." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1108062138

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)