 In each of these instances, people gravitated toward relationships that provided them with evaluations that confirmed their self-views and fled from those that did not.When people fail to gain self-verifying reactions through the display of identity cue or through choosing self-verifying social environments, they may still acquire such evaluations by systematically evoking confirming reactions.For example, depressed people behave in negative ways toward their roommates, thus causing these roommates to reject them.