From a terror management perspective: The efficacy of self-affirmation on organ donation-related thoughts and intentions in China

X Wang - The Journal of Social Psychology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In 2015, the Chinese government officially abolished the practice of harvesting organs from
executed prisoners. However, the voluntary donor registration rate among the Chinese …

[PDF][PDF] C-SAW: Computer-supported scaffolding of argumentative writing

K Benetos - 2015 - access.archive-ouverte.unige.ch
The goals of this development and research was to determine if C-SAW—an instructional
technology designed according to principles derived from research and literature on …

[图书][B] The Drive to Be Better: The Role of the Self-Improvement Motive on Media Selection, Processing, and Effects

TK Luong - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Overcoming audience resistance is an important and lasting topic in communication
research. Theories conceptualizing the self as the driver of various media processes …

Self-affirmation

X Zhao - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, 2017 - oxfordre.com
Self-affirmation theory posits that people are motivated to maintain an adequate sense of
self-integrity. It further posits that the self-system is highly flexible such that threats to one …