There is an ongoing debate about the way self-relevant stimuli guide us through everyday perception. A new measurement of self-relevance effects, the self-prioritisation effect (SPE), allows for an assessment of self-effects independent of material confounds as the effect of newly acquired self-relevance is tested. While revealing further insights in the way self-relevance influences cognition, the underlying processes of the SPE are not completely understood yet. In that regard, we conducted the following study to test whether the SPE is explained by a person’s self-esteem or, in other words, by the amount someone considers her- or himself worthy or unworthy. In a sample of N = 103 healthy participants, no significant correlation of the SPE and the explicit self-esteem was found. A potential independence of the SPE of a rather complex aspect of the self, the self-esteem, is discussed in order to further understand the underlying processes of the SPE.

Dataset for: Schäfer, S., & Frings, C. (2019). Understanding self-prioritisation: the prioritisation of self-relevant stimuli and its relation to the individual self-esteem. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 31(8), 813–824. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2019.1686393

data aggregated per condition; data (unaggregated) for Exp. group 1; data (unaggregated) for Exp. group 2; data (unaggregated) for Exp. group 3