| Implicit self-esteem and collective self-esteem sources can come into conflict when people are forced to decide between choices associated with implicit self-interest and those associated with social needs. In the study, 120 participants (n = 120) were provided with descriptions of ten basketball players or ten musicians, and were asked to create a basketball team or a music band. A forced choice occurred when participants had to choose between a target that shared their initials (i.e., implicit self-esteem), or one with a similar favorite team/band (i.e., collective self-esteem). This study is a replication of an earlier, smaller project with the goal of gathering a larger and more diverse sample. In the original study, an effect of higher implicit self-esteem was found for African-American females. The results of this study suggest that this is a statistical artifact due to small sample size in the original study, rather than a true effect. |
