"Self-verification motives at the collective level of self-definition": Correction to Chen et al. (2004).

Reports an error in "Self-verification motives at the collective level of self-definition" by Serena Chen, Karen Y. Chen and Lindsay Shaw (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004[Jan], Vol 86[1], 77-94). On page 88, under the heading Degree of Correspondence Between Self and Desired Ratings, in the third paragraph, the fourth sentence, "On the other hand, if the self-minus-desired score for this attribute had been positive, the sign would have been left untouched," is misleading and should be ignored. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2003-11198-005.) Three studies examined self-verification motives in relation to collective aspects of the self. Several moderators of collective self-verification were also examined--namely, the certainty with which collective self-views are held, the nature of one's ties to a source of self-verification, the salience of the collective self, and the importance of group identification. Evidence for collective self-verification emerged across all studies, particularly when collective self-views were held with high certainty (Studies 1 and 2), perceivers were somehow tied to the source of self-verification (Study 1), the collective self was salient (Study 2), and group identification was important (Study 3). To the authors' knowledge, these studies are the first to examine self-verification at the collective level of self-definition. The parallel and distinct ways in which self-verification processes may operate at different levels of self-definition are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)