Reactions to positive and negative feedback: Enhancement and consistency effects

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social behavior, social psychology, reactions, positive, negative, feedback, enhancement, consistency, effects, pain experience, medical model, electrochemical activities, pain stimuli, attentiveness, ethno-cultural differences, hospital staff, nurses, re
Abstract
Reactions of low, medium, and high self-esteem subjects to positive and negative feedback were explored in two studies of college undergraduates. Results indicated that feedback variables may be categorized along a continuum that includes affectively and cognitively mediated variables. Mood and satisfaction ratings were related to feedback and not to self-esteem level; attribution following failure feedback, source accuracy ratings, and performance improvement were related in some respects to both feedback and self-esteem level. Also, task importance ratings related to feedback and not to self-esteem, and changes in self-evaluations were unrelated to feedback or self-esteem.
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1982-08-01
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