TY - JOUR AU - Zander, A. AB - This study "examined how variations in the strength of social pressures, acting upon a person in the direction of lowering his self-evaluation, affect the evaluations the individual assigns to the quality of his performance, and to his more or less closely relevant abilities, after he has failed on a task . . . . Ss who made low evaluations of their performances did not evaluate these abilities differently under different experimental conditions . . . " but those who made high evaluations did. From Psyc Abstracts 36:01:1HJ23S. TI - Effects of public and private failure on self-evaluation JF - Journal of Abnormal Psychology DO - 10.1037/h0045939 DA - 1958-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/effects-of-public-and-private-failure-on-self-evaluation-Epx0ig2wL3 SP - 223 EP - 229 VL - 56 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -