Me versus the millennial : desire for self-verification as a function of self-descriptiveness of stereotype and anticipated interaction type

• Main Author: Lim, Eunice Wan Lin
• Other Authors: Catherine Wan Ching
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Motivation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/77174
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Decades of research have demonstrated self-verification strivings among individuals, with individuals motivated to be viewed upon consistently across dimensions of the “self” – the personal self and the social self. Nonetheless, past studies have examined self-verification on each “self” separately,...