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• TITLE: Self-Affirmation through WeChat Moments

  AUTHORS: Xiangli Wen, Yaozhong Liu, Yakun Ni

  KEYWORDS: Self-Affirmation, WeChat, Moments

  JOURNAL NAME: Psychology, Vol.10 No.3, February 22, 2019

  ABSTRACT: Self-affirmation is helpful for reducing the individual’s defensive response to threats, harvesting and growing from threatening but valuable information. This study examines whether viewing personal WeChat moments is self-affirmative. Browsing WeChat moments of other people that better than yourself will lead to an upward social comparison, but the effect of browsing your own moments is rarely discussed. This study conducts an experiment, and the result proves that browsing WeChat moments is an effective self-affirmation intervention paradigm. The self-affirmation paradigm which is close to daily life deserves further promotion and research.