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threatened egotism: a standalone construct

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threatenedegotism1 CONSTRUCTThreatened egotismBAUMEISTER · SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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aggression often comes from people with favorable but unstable self-views when those views are challenged by others.

In social psychology, threatened egotism refers to aggression often comes from people with favorable but unstable self-views when those views are challenged by others. This meaning comes from Baumeister (1996) in Psychological Review.[1]

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  1. Baumeister, R. F., Smart, L., & Boden, J. M. (1996). Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: The dark side of high self-esteem. Psychological Review, 103(1), 5-33. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.103.1.5

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