But this type of self-handicapping will prevent you from reaching your potential.

He has also done some work on attributions for self-handicapping.

Self-handicapping has been observed in both laboratory and real world settings.

Or he will stop fighting as hard, something the ethologists call self-handicapping.

He is primarily known for his research on self-handicapping.

This is known as claimed self-handicapping, in which the individual merely states that an obstacle to performance exists.

An example of self-handicapping is the student who spends the night before an important exam partying rather than studying.

Attributions about the motives for self-handicapping: It takes one to know one.

However, self-handicapping is highly risky in social situations.

Until this point, self-handicapping only encompassed the usage of external factors, such as alcohol and drugs.

Mean group scores on academic self-efficacy, academic self-handicapping and cultural dissonance.

Behavioural self-handicapping is a good demonstration of active self-deception.

Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem.

Self-handicapping is a widespread behavior amongst humans that has been observed in a variety of cultures and geographic areas.

The effects of self-handicapping can be both large and small and found in virtually any environment wherein people are expected to perform.

The root of research on the act of self-handicapping can be traced back to Adler's studies about self-esteem.

Self-handicapping is a topic of importance because it helps to explain and predict individuals' negative, self-destructive behaviors.

Previous research has established that self-handicapping is motivated by uncertainty about one's ability or, more generally, anticipated threats to self-esteem.

Some experts believe that the psychological concept of self-handicapping might help explain why someone would put an unflattering picture of himself online.

There are several emotion-oriented strategies, similar to Freudian defense mechanisms, coping styles and self-handicapping.

By studying what self-handicapping is and why people do it, social psychologists can work to help people solve their problems in a less destructive manner.

While this may provide temporary relief, it renders one's ability conceptions more uncertain, resulting in further self-handicapping.

Depression and somatic complaints also predicted subsequent self-handicapping.

Belief in unjust world has been linked to increased self-handicapping, criminality, defensive coping, anger and perceived future risk.

Some have attempted to explain this cognitive bias in terms of the regression fallacy or of self-handicapping.