Self Handicapping

• Putting obstacles in the way of success to provide an excuse for poor performance

• Study of drugs on performance

mental representation of attributes, roles, experiences, goals and relationships; as well as structures and processes that connect these representations to themselves and emotion and behavior

• the recognition and assertion of the existence and value of one's individual self.

• “People are motivated to see themselves as adaptively and morally adequate, competent, good coherent.. and so on.  I view these self-affirmation processes as being activated by information that threatens the perceived adequacy or integrity of the self and as running their course until this perception is restored.”

• Looks at Own behavior and Situational
• Foot in the door effect (Drive carefully sign)

1. Tend to explain other’s behavior in dispositional terms and own behavior in situational terms
2. Appears to be caused by both different perceptual perspectives and different perceptual perspectives and different types of information available to actors and observers