Self‐esteem and responses to success and failure: Subsequent performance and intrinsic motivation

Effects of externally mediated rewards on intrinsic motivation.

1971 • 4,026 citations

Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the "overjustification" hypothesis.

1973 • 2,393 citations

Accounts

1968 • 2,357 citations

Changing the world and changing the self: A two-process model of perceived control.

1982 • 1,997 citations

Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences

1970 • 854 citations

Control of Attributions about the Self Through Self-handicapping Strategies: The Appeal of Alcohol and the Role of Underachievement

1978 • 822 citations

Expectations and Actions

2021 • 690 citations

Personality and Persuasibility

1960 • 607 citations

Self- and interpersonal evaluations: Esteem theories versus consistency theories.

1973 • 413 citations

When self-presentation is constrained by the target's knowledge: Consistency and compensation.

1978 • 351 citations

Self-esteem, self-presentation, and future Interaction: A dilemma of reputation

1982 • 241 citations

Effects of self-esteem and performance feedback on future affective preferences and cognitive expectations.

1981 • 228 citations

On knowing when to quit: Task failure, self‐esteem, advice, and nonproductive persistence

1984 • 185 citations

Self-esteem and the effects of success and failure feedback on performance1

1970 • 174 citations

Public versus private expectancy of success: Confidence booster or performance pressure?

1985 • 174 citations

Dishonest behavior as a function of differential levels of induced self-esteem.

1968 • 159 citations

Avoidance of continued success as a function of self-esteem, level of esteem certainty, and responsibility for success.

1972 • 153 citations

Self-esteem and differential responsiveness to success and failure.

1964 • 127 citations

Self-evaluations, initial success and failure, and improvement as determinants of persistence.

1977 • 127 citations

Avoidance of continued success as a function of self-esteem, level of esteem certainty, and responsibility for success.

1972 • 120 citations

How to reverse the vicious cycle of low self-esteem: The importance of attentional focus

1978 • 109 citations

Improving the Performance of Low Self-Esteem Individuals: An Attributional Approach.

1983 • 71 citations

Equity and intrinsic motivation: The role of choice.

1978 • 65 citations

The effect of experimentally induced failure, self-esteem, and sex on cognitive differentiation.

1973 • 54 citations

Rejection of unexpected success as a function of the negative consequences of accepting success.

1971 • 44 citations

Impression Management

2014 • 31 citations

Effect of self-esteem upon performance following failure stress.

1968 • 31 citations