Retro: Self-esteem myth
Was it really 20 years ago that scientists explained raising self-esteem doesn't lead to better achievement?
Editor’s note: This post is based on a post to my blog, Teach Effectively, on 2 April 2005. When I came across it, I thought I ought to share it again, so here it is. In addition, I’ve added a few updates in a section after the reposting. By the way, this is so old that it was hosted on a server running on my desktop computer at my office. Thanks to the Internet Archive, it was saved!—JohnL
Self-esteem myth
Filed under: News — JohnL @ 4:48 pm
Roy Baumeister, Jennifer Campbell, Joachim Krueger and Kathleen Vohs provided a sensible evaluation of the self-esteem myth in an article in the December 2004 Scientific American. The article brings to the popular press the results of the extensive scientific review by Baumeister and colleagues that was published in 2003 by the American Psychological Society. Here’s a quote that’s relevant to our areas of interest.
