Exam 7: Self-Protection Techniques

The purpose of identity protection techniques is to prevent damage or harm to the actor's social identity as perceived by the target or targets.

The perceived sincerity of an excuse contributes to whether or not the excuse will be accepted by others.

Excusing making in terms of impression management usually involves

A series of three studies found that women have less tolerance than men for self- handicapping on test performance by both men and women.

An important part of admitting mistakes as part of damage control is to

Darryl crashes a company car while on a business trip to Los Angeles. According to the self-serving bias, Darryl is likely to explain the accident in these terms:

Perfectionism often backfires as a method of self-handicapping because perfectionists may appear obsessed over details, and they often miss deadlines.

Self-handicapping is more likely to take place when the results of a performance will be publicly known, such as the safety performance of a supervisor's group.

According to the self-protection method of accounts, the actor will explain how an inner weakness led him or her to making a mistake or creating another problem.

Kristina, who has high status based on her education and work history, experiences non- contingent success when she receives a promotion without having done much to deserve it.

The general purpose of self-protection techniques in impression management is to

Kaitlin is a perfectionist, thereby being able to self-handicap by getting so bogged down in the details of a project that

When recovering from a major error on the job, one of the recommended approaches is to find somebody else to blame for what went wrong.

With self-handicapping, a person's failures are discounted because

Learning how to manage anger is important in the workplace because outbursts will often damage a person's social identity.

Derek attains non-contingent success when he receives an award yet he feels that

Ashley has an MBA from Harvard Business School, so according to status characteristics theory, members of her work group will expect her to

Luke is playing golf today, and he engages in self-handicapping by telling the three other people in the foursome,

A gender difference noted in self-handicapping is that women engage more frequently in self-handicapping than men.

Billy engages in self-handicapping just before taking the same test you are taking now by telling the instructor, "I have a migraine headache today, so I doubt I can show you what I really know."