Haslam Nick
a University of Melbourne.
J Soc Psychol. 2017;157(2):143-147. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2017.1282850.
Cypryańska and colleagues offer a critique of existing work on the self-humanizing effect and present some empirical findings motivated by their critique. In this commentary, I question their overly restrictive understanding of self-humanizing and argue that the phenomenon does not stand or fall on a definition based on a strict analogy to the better-than-average effect. I argue that defining self-humanizing exclusively in these terms is inappropriate: It fails to recognize the relationship between self-humanizing and self-enhancement, as well as the primary role of trait valence in comparative self-ratings. Finally, I observe that Cypryańska et al.'s empirical findings are highly consistent with past work rather than offering the deep challenge that the authors suppose.
西普里亚ńska及其同事对现有的关于自我人性化效应的研究进行了批判，并基于他们的批判提出了一些实证研究结果。在这篇评论中，我质疑他们对自我人性化的过度狭义理解，并认为该现象并非取决于基于与优于平均水平效应的严格类比的定义。我认为仅用这些术语来定义自我人性化是不合适的：它没有认识到自我人性化与自我提升之间的关系，以及特质效价在比较性自我评价中的首要作用。最后，我观察到西普里亚ńska等人的实证研究结果与过去的研究高度一致，而非如作者所认为的那样构成了深刻挑战。
