Ann H. Baumgardner

TL;DR: The influence of affect on causal attributions for success and failure was examined in this article, where a positive, neurtral, or negative mood was induced in subjects who then learned they had either succeeded or failed an aptitude test taken previously.

TL;DR: This article found that high-esteem persons viewed a target who expended effort as higher in ability than one who intentionally withdrew effort, while low-esteem individuals viewed an attempt to withdraw effort as a sign of low ability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of an incongruent self-concept on interest in acquiring self-knowledge and found that those with high global self-esteem/positive specific self-worth expressed greater interest in learning more about themselves than those whose self-values were congruent.

TL;DR: The authors examined 15 personality and demographic differences between psychology students who took part in experiments at different times of the semester and different hours of the day and found that few significant relations were found and those that did emerge were small in magnitude.