Debates about the benefits of self-esteem have persisted for decades, both in the scientific
literature and in the popular press. Although many researchers and lay people have argued …

A number of models has been proposed to describe various types of feedback along with
mechanisms through which feedback may improve student performance and learning. We …

In this paper we review recent research on the topic of feedback and introduce our revised
Student-Feedback Interaction model that describes how feedback, offered in a variety of …

Narcissism, a trait reflecting egocentric exceptionalism and social selfishness, has captured
scholarly interest due to its intricate composition and social implications. The construct is …

Children from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds often have more negative self-
views than their peers. How are these self-views shaped by teacher–student interactions in …

The present meta-analysis tests the bottom-up and top-down models of self-esteem, by
synthesizing the available longitudinal evidence on prospective effects between global and …

Self-protection and self-enhancement, once depicted as biases that impede accurate self-
knowledge and hinder effective environmental control, have more recently been viewed as …

Given the importance of self-esteem for promoting adolescents' social, psychological, and
academic adjustment and the growing importance of social identities during adolescence …

Several theories propose that narcissism is rooted in affective contingencies. Given
narcissists' focus on power, these contingencies should be strong in the power domain but …

Which domain-specific self-evaluations are most central to children's global self-worth? And
does this differ between countries with different levels of collectivism–individualism? We …