Ryan begins his 20-page sociology paper at about 5 p.m. on the night before the paper is due. At around 6 p.m., Gary requests a
favor that will take several hours. Ryan grants the favor and ends up leaving himself just a few hours to complete the paper. Later, when friends ask Ryan about his paper grade, he says, "I got a D because I was helping Gary all night instead of writing." This scenario exemplifies a self-presentation process called
Self-handicapping is a strategy in which people starts to avoid putting efforts in activities for the fear of getting failure in it. They do not want to attempt to put efforts as it would become to the reason of hurting their self-esteem. It is a way of securing self-esteem ad at the same time managing to maintain an impression before others. In the above case, Ryan takes the shield of self-handicapping to maintain his impression.
The average goals for any research project is for the person doing the project to further their knowledge and to present information proven by others before them.
