Abraham Tesser

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Abraham Tesser is affiliated with the following schools: Purdue University, University of Georgia

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According to Wikipedia, Abraham Tesser' is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Georgia. His research has made significant contributions to several areas in the field of Social Psychology. He created the self-evaluation maintenance model, a theory in social psychology that focuses on the motives for self-enhancement.

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Abraham Tesser's Published Works

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Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior (1988) (1806)
Some ruminative thoughts. (1996) (923)
Effects of Time-Management Practices on College Grades (1991) (705)
Self-Generated Attitude Change (1978) (648)
On the Confluence of Self-Esteem Maintenance Mechanisms (2000) (467)
Toward a motivational and structural theory of ruminative thought. (1989) (385)
Effects of affective and cognitive focus on the attitude–behavior relation. (1986) (365)
Some Affective Consequences of Social Comparison and Reflection Processes: The Pain and Pleasure of Being Close (1988) (363)
Some determinants of gratitude. (1968) (313)
Advanced social psychology (1995) (307)
The Reluctance to Transmit Bad News (1975) (306)
On reluctance to communicate undesirable information: The MUM effect. (1970) (264)
Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Intraindividual processes (2001) (237)
Cognitive schemas and thought as determinants of attitude change (1977) (234)
On the confluence of self processes (1991) (233)
Self‐evaluation maintenance and the perception of friends and strangers (1982) (217)
Some effects of self-evaluation maintenance on cognition and action. (1986) (209)
Striving and Feeling : Interactions Among Goals, Affect, and Self-regulation (2010) (208)
The definition of self: Private and public self-evaluation management strategies. (1983) (206)
The effects of affective-cognitive consistency and thought on the attitude-behavior relation (1989) (205)
Thought-induced attitude change: The effects of schema structure and commitment. (1986) (201)
Task effort and the regulation of mood: The absorption hypothesis (1992) (199)
Effects of prior knowledge on use of cognitive capacity in three complex cognitive tasks. (1982) (198)
The psychology of evaluation. (1996) (192)
Some affective consequences of social comparison and reflection processes: the pain and pleasure of being close. (1988) (191)
Some effects of task relevance and friendship on helping: You don't always help the one you like☆ (1980) (191)
Self-definition: The impact of the relative performance and similarity of others. (1980) (186)
Some effects of time and thought on attitude polarization. (1975) (184)
Self-esteem maintenance in family dynamics. (1980) (180)
The "What the Hell" Effect: Some Effects of Goal Proximity and Goal Framing on Performance (1996) (172)
Emotion in social comparison and reflection processes. (1991) (166)
Confluence of Self-Esteem Regulation Mechanisms: On Integrating the Self-Zoo (2000) (165)
Attitudes and attitude change. (1990) (162)
Emotion in social reflection and comparison situations: intuitive, systematic, and exploratory approaches. (1988) (157)
Society of self: the emergence of collective properties in self-structure. (2000) (152)
Motivational interpretations of hindsight bias: An individual difference analysis (1983) (148)
The Importance of Heritability in Psychological Research: The Case of Attitudes (1993) (147)
Self and Motivation: Emerging Psychological Perspectives (2002) (144)
The effects of relevance and quality of another's performance on interpersonal closeness. (1981) (144)
Friendship Choice and Performance: Self-Evaluation Maintenance in Children (1984) (134)
The impact of thought on attitude extremity and attitude-behavior consistency. (1995) (133)
Wanting but not having: The effects of unattained goals on thoughts and feelings. (1993) (131)
On the substitutability of self-protective mechanisms (1996) (128)
Mood as Input: What We Think About How We Feel Determines How We Think (1996) (125)
On building, defending, and regulating the self : a psychological perspective (2005) (124)
The importance of heritability in psychological research: the case of attitudes. (1993) (123)
Psychological perspectives on self and identity (2000) (122)
Dominance cues in nonverbal behavior. (1982) (116)
Life events, relationship quality, and depression: an investigation of judgment discontinuity in vivo. (1998) (116)
Reactions to Unexpected Events (1983) (96)
Self-activation increases social comparison. (2001) (96)
On the Plasticity of Self-Defense (2001) (95)
The Construction of Social Judgments (2013) (90)
Some Effects of Salience and Time Upon Interpersonal Hostility and Attraction During Social Isolation 1,2 (1973) (90)
The role of social pressure, attention to the stimulus, and self‐doubt in conformity (1983) (86)
Pleasure and pain in doing well, together: an investigation of performance-related affect in close relationships. (1998) (80)
Attitude polarization as a function of thought and reality constraints (1976) (77)
Fear of Negative Evaluation and the Reluctance to Transmit Bad News (1972) (77)
On the Reluctance to Communicate Undesirable Messages (The MUM Effect): A Field Study (1971) (76)
Deceptive Behavior in Social Relationships: A Consequence of Violated Expectations (1988) (71)
Self-evaluation maintenance and the mediational role of emotion: the perception of friends and strangers. (1989) (64)
Popularity in Environmental Context: Facial Feature Assessment of American Movie Actresses (1999) (62)
Decision making power and marital satisfaction: a self-evaluation maintenance perspective (1993) (61)
Similarity of objective fate as a determinant of the reluctance to transmit unpleasant information: The MUM effect. (1972) (60)
Self-esteem and the extended self-evaluation maintenance model: The self in social context. (1995) (60)
Tainted recommendations: The social comparison bias (2010) (54)
Toward a causal model of love. (1976) (54)
Self-evaluation maintenance and evolution: Some speculative notes. (2000) (53)
Dispositional and situational determinants of repression. (1996) (53)
The role of beliefs and feelings in guiding behavior: The mismatch model (1992) (51)
Aggression, love, conformity, and other social psychological catastrophes. (1994) (51)
Smith and Ellsworth's Appraisal Model of Emotion (1990) (51)
Self-Esteem and the Extended Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model (1995) (50)
On the Perceived Functions of Movies (1988) (50)
A note on the evaluation of a “computer date” (1971) (48)
Conformity and attention to the stimulus: Some temporal and contextual dynamics. (1986) (47)
Some attitudinal and cognitive consequences of thought (1977) (47)
Transportation into narrative worlds: Implications for the self (2005) (46)
Extending the Goal Progress Theory of Rumination: Goal Reevaluation and Growth. (2006) (45)
The Effects of Recipient Desire to Hear on News Transmission (1973) (45)
Thought and number of cognitions as determinants of attitude change (1975) (45)
On the reluctance to communicate bad news (the mum effect): A role play extension (1972) (40)
Conflict: the role of calm and angry parent-child discussion in adolescent adjustment (1989) (39)
Nagging doubts and a glimmer of hope: The role of implicit self-esteem in self-image maintenance (2005) (36)
Threat and Social Choice: When Eye Size Matters (2005) (35)
Complementarity in Romantic Relationships: A Self-Evaluation Maintenance Perspective (1991) (35)
Constructing a Niche for the Self: A Bio-Social, PDPApproach to Understanding Lives (2002) (35)
When Individual Dispositions and Social Pressure Conflict: A Catastrophe (1980) (31)
Communicator mood and the reluctance to transmit undesirable messages (the Mum effect). (1973) (30)
On the Convergence of Public and Private Aspects of Self (1986) (29)
11 – Self-Evaluation Maintenance Processes: Implications for Relationships and for Development* (1984) (28)
Attitude heritability and attitude reinforcement: A replication. (1996) (28)
On Validating a Relationship Between Constructs (1976) (26)
When Does Goal Nonattainment Lead to Negative Emotional Reactions, and When Doesn't It?: The Role of Linking and Rumination (2014) (24)
When does performance feedback prompt complementarity in romantic relationships (2001) (24)
Self-Evaluation Maintenance in Marriage: Toward a Performance Ecology of the Marital Relationship (1996) (23)
Self-Evaluation Maintenance in Marriage : Toward a Performance Ecology of the Marital Relationship (2001) (22)
News Valence and Available Recipient as Determinants of News Transmission (1972) (22)
A self‐evaluation maintenance approach to school behavior (1982) (21)
Social perception: A test of the role of arousal in self-evaluation maintenance processes (1994) (21)
The relationship between marital interaction behaviors and affective reactions to one's own and one's spouse's self-evaluation needs (1996) (21)
The effects of a threatening life event on behavior sequences and intrusive thought: A self-disruption explanation (1988) (21)
The Self and Social Relationships (2013) (20)
Differential weighting and directed meaning as explanations of primacy in impression formation (1968) (19)
Attitude heritability, attitude change and physiological responsivity (1998) (19)
NONCONSCiOuS GOal PurSuiT: iSOlaTEd iNCidENTS Or adaPTivE SElf-rEGulaTOry TOOl? (2010) (19)
Evaluative and Structural Similarity of Attitudes as Determinants of Interpersonal Attraction. (1971) (18)
Some message variables and the MUM effect. (1972) (18)
Effects of Mood on Persuasion Processes: Enhancing, Reducing, and Biasing Scrutiny of Attitude-Relevant Information (2014) (18)
Antecedents and Responses Associated with Loneliness (1987) (17)
Affect control: Process Constraints versus Catharsis (1978) (16)
Relationship Ecology and Negative Communication in Romantic Relationships: A Self-Evaluation Maintenance Perspective (2000) (16)
Social contexts of suicide. (1971) (16)
Anticipated Relationship, Salience of Partner and Attitude Change (1978) (16)
Attitude heritability and attitude reinforcement: A test of the niche building hypothesis (1994) (16)
Interactive effects of new valence and attraction on communicator behavior. (1973) (16)
Influence of a Salient Schema on Thought-induced Cognitive Change (1978) (15)
Social Psychology: Who We Are and What We Do (2002) (13)
Independent threats and self-evaluation maintenance processes. (1990) (13)
Similarity and Uniqueness Focus: A Paper Tiger and a Surprise (1998) (12)
Attitudes and Behavior: the Cognitive-Affective Mismatch Hypothesis (1990) (11)
On Building, Defending and Regulating the Self. (2005) (10)
Bias in Interpersonal Communication. (1975) (10)
Ideal agency: On perceiving the self as an origin of action (2005) (10)
On the mechanism of thought-induced attitude change (1981) (9)
The Effects of Helping and Focus of Attention on Mood States (1988) (9)
Reviewing Empirical Submissions to Journals. (2006) (9)
Attitude Base as a Moderator of the Attitude Similarity-Attraction Relationship. (1971) (8)
Trait similarity and trait evaluation as correlates of attraction (1969) (8)
Adolescent functioning : communication and the buffering of parental anger (1991) (7)
Theories and Hypotheses (2000) (7)
Self-Evaluation Maintenance Processes and Individual Differences in Self-Esteem. (1982) (6)
Fate orientation as a correlate of driver knowledge (1969) (6)
The Communicative Theory of Emotions: Empirical Tests, Mental Models, and Implications for Social Interaction (2014) (6)
Psychological testing through the looking glass of youth. (1968) (5)
Dependency Conflict and Underachievement (1987) (5)
Chaos: On Making a Convincing Case for Social Psychology (1997) (5)
Self-evaluation maintenance in sports team rivalries (1985) (4)
The Effects of Choice in Systematic Desensitization (1973) (4)
On models and assumptions: A reply to Smith. (1978) (4)
Dependence and thought as determinants of interpersonal hostility (1974) (3)
Understanding Marriage: Competition in Romantic Relationships: Do Partners Build Niches? (2002) (3)
Interpersonal Attraction as a Function of the Other's Reward Value to the Person (1970) (3)
Another look at castration anxiety and fear of death. (1985) (2)
Comprar Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes | Abraham Tesser | 9780631210337 | Wiley (2008) (2)
Some Effects of Stimulus Typicality in an Impression Formation Task (1970) (2)
Why Subjects Say They Would or Would Not Communicate Affectively Toned Messages (1977) (2)
The consequences of failing at nonconscious goals for self-enhancement (2005) (2)
The Organization of Self-Knowledge: Implications for Mood Regulation (2014) (1)
Changes in Self-Definition: A Self-Evaluation Maintenance Strategy. (1982) (1)
Coping on the Interface. (1989) (1)
Self-Beliefs, Self-Evaluation, and Depression: A Perspective on Emotional Vulnerability (2014) (1)
ATTITUDE AND RELEVANCE FOR ACTION MEDIATED BY BELIEF COMPLEXITY AS DETERMINANTS OF ACTION (1967) (1)
The "Genuine Self" and Behavioral Inhibition (1998) (1)
On reducing experimenter bias: The effects of forewarning. (1971) (1)
Attitudes: The what and the why. (1990) (1)
Self-Evaluation Maintenance: A Social Psychological Approach to Interpersonal Relationships (2013) (1)
Self-evaluative Process, Psychology of (2001) (0)
Self-Esteem Maintenance: You Sometimes Hurt the One You Love. (1979) (0)
ATTITUDES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TOWARDS MANIFESTATIONS OF TOLERANCE (2012) (0)
SOME EFFECTS OF STIMULUS nPIcALIn IN AN IMPRESSION FORMATION TASK1 (1970) (0)
SERIES : Sponsored by the International Society for Self and Identity The Self and Social Relationships (2007) (0)
On the uniqueness of self-definition : a self-evaluation maintenance perspective (1991) (0)
The Self-Regulation of Moods (2014) (0)
Institutional Achievement in Social Psychology: An Historical Perspective (1977) (0)
Goal Orientation and Emotional Well-Being: Linking Goals and Affect Through the Self (2014) (0)
ISSI Books on Self and Identity (2002) (0)
Toward Understanding a Pretzel-Shaped Universe: Dynamical Social Psychology. (2000) (0)
A Catastrophe in my Research Portfolio (2011) (0)
Source and concept evaluation as determinants of inferred assertions (1971) (0)
The prominent role of cognition in emotion. (2003) (0)
Psychological perspectives on motivation and identity. (2003) (0)
Tesser, Abraham (2020) (0)
Erratum to Tesser and Paulhus. (1978) (0)
The Effect of Prior Assistance/Nonassistance and Norms Regarding Assistance On Transmission of Valenced Messages (1976) (0)

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