Zhang Liqing, Baumeister Roy F
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2006 Jul;32(7):881-93. doi: 10.1177/0146167206287120.
The present research explored egotism-maintaining favorable views of the self-as a motivation underlying entrapment in losing endeavors. Four studies suggested that threatened selfesteem would cause decision makers to invest and lose more money in a previously chosen course of action. Ego-threatened participants consistently lost more money than nonthreatened participants across diverse entrapping situations regardless of whether the outcome was ostensibly determined by luck (Experiments 1 and 4), ability (Experiment 2), or interpersonal competition (Experiment 3). Thus, pursuing favorable views of the self could be costly to decision makers' financial well-being and may produce self-defeating behaviors.
本研究探讨了维护自我中心的对自身的赞许看法，将其作为在失败努力中陷入困境的一种潜在动机。四项研究表明，受到威胁的自尊会导致决策者在先前选择的行动方案中投入并损失更多资金。在各种导致陷入困境的情况下，无论结果表面上是由运气（实验1和4）、能力（实验2）还是人际竞争（实验3）决定的，受到自我威胁的参与者始终比未受威胁的参与者损失更多的钱。因此，追求对自身的赞许看法可能会对决策者的财务状况造成代价，并可能产生自我挫败行为。
