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Emotional Responses to Changing Feedback: Is It Better to Have Won and Lost Than Never to Have Won At All?
Author(s) -
Brown Jonathan D.,
Farnham Shelly D.,
Cook Kathleen E.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.00181
Subject(s) - distressing , psychology , negative feedback , self esteem , positive feedback , social psychology , developmental psychology , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , voltage , electrical engineering , engineering
Two experiments investigated how self‐esteem guides people'semotional responses to changing evaluative feedback. In both experiments, participants receivedan initial evaluation (either positive or negative) followed by a second evaluation (either positiveor negative). Emotional reactions to the second evaluation were then assessed. High self‐esteemparticipants found feedback that was consistently negative to be most distressing, whereas lowself‐esteem participants were most disturbed by feedback that changed from positive to negative.The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.