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ERIC Number: EJ442290
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Reducing Effort to Protect Perceived Ability: "They'd Do It but I Wouldn't."
Jagacinski, Carolyn M.; Nicholls, John G.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v82 n1 p15-21 Mar 1990
In 3 experiments, 123, 70, and 60 college students indicated that others might reduce effort in a situation where they expect failure as a strategy to protect their perceptions of ability, but that they themselves would not. Reduced effort when threatened by failure may not be intentional. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Students, Competence, Coping, Expectation, Failure, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Effort; Self Protection
Note: Special section with title "Motivation and Efficacy in Education: Research and New Directions." A previous version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 23-27, 1984).