Sarah Tandler
Sarah Tandler appears on this site as first author of the 2014 Psychology paper on self-affirmation and claimed self-handicapping.
Who they are
The work of Sarah Tandler reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Self-Handicapping, Self-Affirmation Theory.
Key papers
Tandler, S., Schwinger, M., Kaminski, K., & Stiensmeier-Pelster, J. (2014). Self-affirmation buffers claimed self-handicapping? A test of contextual and individual moderators. Psychology, 5(5), 321-327. What it reports: After negative feedback, students who affirmed themselves in the threatened domain claimed less self-handicapping, but only those with high self-esteem showed this.
Key ideas
Self-Handicapping: Creating or claiming an obstacle before a test so that a poor result can be blamed on it.
Self-Affirmation Theory: Claude Steele's 1988 account of how people protect an image of themselves as adequate, and how reflecting on a valued domain unrelated to the threat can restore it. The exercise contains no statement about the self to repeat.
Sources
- Tandler, S., Schwinger, M., Kaminski, K., & Stiensmeier-Pelster, J. (2014). Self-affirmation buffers claimed self-handicapping? A test of contextual and individual moderators. Psychology, 5(5), 321-327.