{"id":1683,"date":"2009-07-23T07:23:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2009-07-23T07:23:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:23:15","slug":"learned-today-the-bigger-the-ego-the-harder-the-fall-how-self-awareness-buffers-against-social-rejection-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/23\/learned-today-the-bigger-the-ego-the-harder-the-fall-how-self-awareness-buffers-against-social-rejection-not-exactly-rocket-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Learned Today!-The bigger the ego, the harder the fall &#8211; how self-awareness buffers against social rejection : Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The results are clear &#8211; people (or at least, children) with the most exaggerated views of their popularity have further to fall emotionally when their <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Social status\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_status\">social status<\/a> is challenged. As Thomaes says, &#8220;These results support the view that distorted self-views promote emotional <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vulnerability\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vulnerability\">vulnerability<\/a> and that realistic self-views promote <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Psychological resilience\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychological_resilience\">emotional resilience<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s better to deal with the reality, bite though it may, than to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Whitewash\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitewash\">whitewash<\/a> over it with an ultimately vulnerable facade.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/notrocketscience\/2009\/07\/the_bigger_the_ego_the_harder_the_fall_-_how_self-awareness.php\">The bigger the ego, the harder the fall &#8211; how self-awareness buffers against social rejection : Not Exactly Rocket Science<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/242acc57-f8f3-4bd3-9a70-a88e3d15029d\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are clear &#8211; people (or at least, children) with the most exaggerated views of their popularity have further to fall emotionally when their social status is challenged. As Thomaes says, &#8220;These results support the view that distorted self-views promote emotional vulnerability and that realistic self-views promote emotional resilience.&#8221; It&#8217;s better to deal with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/23\/learned-today-the-bigger-the-ego-the-harder-the-fall-how-self-awareness-buffers-against-social-rejection-not-exactly-rocket-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learned Today!-The bigger the ego, the harder the fall &#8211; how self-awareness buffers against social rejection : Not Exactly Rocket Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[668,926,1149,1150,1299,1301,1303,1514],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learned-today","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-psychological-resilience","tag-psychology","tag-social-rejection","tag-social-sciences","tag-social-status","tag-whitewash"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}