Tag: #Lehman

2 essays

November 5, 2008

Universal Self-Enhancement Reloaded: A Battle of Definitions and Paradigms

Some time ago I gave my thoughts about the battle of panculturalists vs. universalists with regard to self-enhancement. This is take II, which goes much more in depth and explores the story by examining the two key players in the discussion and there scientific battle in the different journals. Self-enhancement describes a range of psychological […]

September 22, 2008

Questions about “The Self”

In recent times there has been a lot of discussion with regard to social psychology constructs such as self-esteem, self-determination and self-affirmation. Due to rapidly changing societies and new insights into cognitive processes of memory formation some old theories of self-psychology have recently been challenged. For example Heine, Lehman, Markus and Kitayama (1999) postulated that […]