What about self-enhancing decisions fulfilled goals?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2005] Reference

Psychodynamic accounts of other delusions that are supposed to play a defensive or self-enhancing role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delusion] Reference

At least when it comes to the self, it seems that people have to have self-enhancing motivations to look for similarities.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the difficult art of SYNTHESIS] Reference

Women wearing fur coats and men driving a mint condition 1963 Corvette feed our stereotype of self-enhancing, materialistic people (in a midlife crisis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Todd Kashdan: Money and Happiness: Freind of Foe? Depends on How You Spend Your Cash] Reference

In our projection, the planetary climmmate remainss intrinsically stable, selfffcorrecting, and self-enhancing throughout the period of the metasimulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger MacBride]

His solution was to follow Heidegger and to see in the technological hubris of capitalism, its mad dance of self-enhancing productivity, the expression of a more fundamental transcendental-ontological principle -- 'will to power', 'instrumental reason' -- equally evident in the Communist attempt to overcome capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

How might we overcome this tendency toward self-enhancing propaganda?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

First advantage: enhanced state powers are usually non-reversible, instead they are self-enhancing.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedStateEclectic] Reference

Establish powerful self-enhancing beliefs in your capabilities that propel you to the successes you desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

These are self-enhancing qualities, not self-denying ones-and that may say something about what has quietly stolen out of our culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [WORLDMag.com] Reference

With Reading for Personal Development, Merahver-Kuriat comes full circle, demonstrating the principles that make Bibliotreatment a transformative, self-enhancing genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRWeb - Daily News Feed] Reference

Information, identity, institutions and incentives correspond to what most psychologists believe are the four core motives that influence our decision-making in social dilemmas, respectively understanding, belonging, trusting and self-enhancing.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Earth] Reference

The post-communist period of the last 20yrs has not only discredited any socialist discourse, it has also encouraged self-enhancing development and individualism … She predicts that in Latvia, they will have to learn again to work together, rather than alone, and use a non-stigmatised vocabulary for it, which doesnt refer to Socialism or Communism .. ( 'talka' is not as commonally used a word as it is in Finland).    From Wordnik.com.  [P2P Foundation] Reference

The self-enhancing tendency helps explain why professors believe that grade inflation exists but their grades do not contribute to it, why student pressure and student evaluations influence others’ grading but not their own, and why grades in their classes should be higher but grades at the university level and other universities should be lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Professor:] Reference

"Harvie's brilliant work shows that life was indeed elsewhere outside the Home Counties and it is a life where Belfast was not the dismal background for cultured melancholy but really was (to use that old Ulster Unionist, self-enhancing, phrase) the 'heart of the British Empire'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference