Jeff has had Juan as his roommate for a semester. Jeff, who has a low opinion of his own athletic skills, has been praised by Juan on a number of occasions for his (Jeff's) play during intramural football games
To begin the spring semester, Jeff has asked for a new roommate. What's going on here? Describe the basic self-presentational underpinnings, and give a more specific theoretical explanation for Jeff's behavior.
In general, we present ourselves to the world in the way we would like to be seen by others. In the self-verification perspective, we want others to honor and feed back to us our vision of ourselves. Oddly, for many of us, this may mean hearing negative things about ourselves. Jeff has asked for a new roommate because Juan continues to praise him, thus challenging Jeff's self-view, a view—albeit a negative one—that Jeff is apparently comfortable with.
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