Other Factors
- Cognitive load: Where people are in situations of great cognitive load, the tendency to self-enhance increases, almost as if instinctive. People are quicker to agree with possessing positive traits and slower to reject having negative traits
- Modifiability: Where a trait or characteristic is seen as unchangeable people are more self-enhancing versus a trait perceived to be modifiable
- Diagnosticity: Where a trait or characteristic is seen as highly diagnostic people are less likely to self-enhance, for fear of being caught out
Read more about this topic: Self-enhancement, Constraints
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