@article{ref1,
title="Rewriting the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Social Rejection: Self-Affirmation Improves Relational Security and Social Behavior up to 2 Months Later",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2011",
author="Stinson, Danu Anthony and Logel, Christine and Shepherd, Steven and Zanna, Mark P.",
volume="22",
number="9",
pages="1145-1149",
abstract="Chronically insecure individuals often behave in ways that result in the very social rejection that they most fear. We predicted that this typical self-fulfilling prophecy is not immutable. Self-affirmation may improve insecure individuals' relational security, and this improvement may allow them to express more welcoming social behavior. In a longitudinal experiment, a 15-min self-affirmation improved both the relational security and experimenter-rated social behavior of insecure participants up to 4 weeks after the initial intervention. Moreover, the extent to which self-affirmation improved insecure participants' relational security at 4 weeks predicted additional improvements in social behavior another 4 weeks after that. Our finding that insecure participants continued to reap the social benefits of self-affirmation up to 8 weeks after the initial intervention demonstrates that it is indeed possible to rewrite the self-fulfilling prophecy of social rejection.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1177/0956797611417725",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417725"
}