<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/47c76397-73c9-4a07-9444-7b93f4e3d619/808D8B90-39AC-43F8-8994-77461B28CC01/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/when-your-self-view-is-skewed-so-goes-your-mood/" href="http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/when-your-self-view-is-skewed-so-goes-your-mood/" style="font-size: 11px;">neuronarrative.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/when-your-self-view-is-skewed-so-goes-your-mood/"><H2>When Your Self-View is Skewed, So Goes Your Mood</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/when-your-self-view-is-skewed-so-goes-your-mood/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/neuronarrative.wordpress.com/img/BB70C24C-CE01-4243-A54B-35B6AC5CA80E" alt="Mirror" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/when-your-self-view-is-skewed-so-goes-your-mood/">A short research <A href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122474983/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0">report</A> in the journal <EM>Psychological Science </EM>investigated the effects of having a distorted self-view, whether too high or too low</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/when-your-self-view-is-skewed-so-goes-your-mood/">The results: subjects whose self-views were initially inflated were emotionally crushed when they received threatening feedback during the game.  Same thing happened to those with deflated self-views. No such effect was found for non-threatening feedback.  The graph below shows just how significant the effect was; note that for the most inflated and most deflated self-views (+3 and -3 respectively), the mood swing is the most extreme</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/when-your-self-view-is-skewed-so-goes-your-mood/">This is interesting because it directly contradicts the notion that inflated self-views serve the function of protecting against the emotional impact of social threats</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/when-your-self-view-is-skewed-so-goes-your-mood/">The findings of this study make a strong case that the exact opposite is true: inflated self-views increased, rather than decreased, emotional distress after threatening feedback</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/808D8B90-39AC-43F8-8994-77461B28CC01/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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