Self-Handicapping: The Paradox That Isn't (The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology)
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PublisherSpringer
ISBN / ASIN0306435403
ISBN-139780306435409
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Sales Rank1,948,252
CategoryPsychology
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Self-handicapping is a protective psychological mechanism for controlling the conditions of performance in order to provide a built in attribution for failure. The apparent paradox is that the choice of inhibiting conditions makes failure more likely, thus undermining the very competence image that
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