The effects of task relevance and closeness with another on future performance

• Main Author: Ang, Bryna Shun Ying
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49130
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The self-evaluation maintenance (SEM) model suggests that it is threatening to be outperformed in a task that is self-defining, and that this threat is greater when a close other outperforms oneself, as compared to a distant other. For the purpose of this paper, the person who observes the performan...