Self-Confidence and Social Interactions

Roland Benabou () and Jean Tirole

Working Papers from Princeton, Woodrow Wilson School - Public and International Affairs

Abstract: This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self-esteem and his social environment, whether in the workplace, at school, or in personal relationships. A person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own ability (or long-term payoff) in pursuing a task, and will undertake it only if he has sufficient self--confidence. People who interact with him (parent, spouse, friend, teacher, manager, colleague, etc.) often have complementary information about his ability, but also a vested interest in his completing the task. This generates an incentive for such principles to distort their signals so as to manipulate the agent's self-confidence.

Keywords: MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; BEHAVIOUR; SOCIETY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 C70 D10 D60 J22 J24 J53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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Working Paper: Self-Confidence and Social Interactions (1999)
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