Self-Handicapping from A Heiderian Perspective

Abstract

where we have discussed the self-handicapper's efforts to negotiate self-serving versions of reality with his or her audiences, it is easy to recast those dynamics into [Fritz] Heider's (1958) balance theory (from the chapter) provide a summary of some of the more basic balance theory concepts / discuss the implications of our balance theory analyses of self-handicapping for a taxonomy of handicapping behaviors, and for our understanding of the manner in which handicaps are involved in the negotiation of reality examine what our analyses reveal about the importance to the self-handicapper of maintaining "pockets" of negative self-theory, and about the seductive appeal of dispositional self-handicaps (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)