Authenticity is more than self-enhancement: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence.

ABSTRACT: Negative self-descriptive information can be threatening to the self. This may depend, however, on the self-representation for which the information is relevant. We focused on two self-presentations, the authentic self and the presented self. In particular, we examined how the authentic and presented selves are influenced by emotional self-descriptiveness. Participants (N = 147) completed a self-referent emotional Stroop task while electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. They viewed in coloured text positive or negative traits exemplifying the authentic self ('I am genuinely honest'), the presented self ('I am outwardly honest'), or control ('It is clearly honest'). Colour naming latency was slower to negative (vs. positive) traits for the presented self and control. Colour naming latency

SUBMITTER: Huang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12687596 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature