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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 4, 349-357 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167285114001
© 1985 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Claiming Mood as a Self-Handicap

The Influence of Spoiled and Unspoiled Public Identities

Ann H. Baumgardner

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Elizabeth A. Lake

University of Missouri, Columbia

Robert M. Arkin

University of Missouri, Columbia

The present study examined self-presentational claims of handicaps to future performance. Specifically, it was hypothesized that subjects would claim a handicap when others were unaware of a prior failing performance. Subjects initially completed a "social accuracy" test and received false feedback that they had failed. When led to believe that the experimenter was unaware of the previous failure, subjects were more likely to-claim mood as a handicap to an upcoming task than when they believed that the experimenter was aware of the failure. Results of the study are discussed in terms of a distinction between protective and acquisitive self-presentation and the role of public identity in self-handicapping behaviors.


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