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Feeling our place in the world: an active inference account of self-esteem

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Self-esteem, the evaluation of one’s own worth or value, is a critical aspect of psychological well-being and mental health. In this paper, we propose an active inference account of self-esteem, casting it as a sociometer or an inferential capacity to interpret one’s standing within a social group. This approach allows us to explore the interaction between an individual’s self-perception and the expectations of their social environment.When there is a mismatch between these perceptions and ex...

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10.1093/nc/niae007

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University of Oxford
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Oxford University Press
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Volume:
2024
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1
Article number:
niae007
Publication date:
2024-04-01
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2024-02-20
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2057-2107
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2024-09-07
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