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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF DEFENSE: SELF AFFIRMATION …

B. BASIC TENETS OF SELF‐AFFIRMATION THEORY Much research within the self‐aYrmation framework examines whether an aYrmation of self‐integrity, unrelated to a specific provoking threat, can attenuate or eliminate people’s normal response to that threat. If it does, then one caninfer that the responsewas motivated bya desire toprotect self‐

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