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#381 Virgil Zeigler-Hill: Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Romantic Love Styles

The Dissenter

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Is Self-Esteem Linked to Self-Defense?

Sociometer theory has been associated with things like depression and suicide, when people get negative information about themselves from other people. But on the other hand, there is also effects like the above average effect, where people end to think that they are better than others in several different domains. What the sociometer model really is tracking is an individual's perceptions of what they think others think about them. Now, how accurate those perceptions are, i think that's where some of the self ception stuff with lik trivers would come into play.

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