Abstract: Swann raised the theory of self-verification and recently proposed a framework of self-verification processes for classifying most of the past researches on self-verification. Self-verification and self-assessment are complementary,but the debate between self-verification and self-enhancement is much more complicated,and their debate can be divided into three stages, from“mine is bigger”to“both of us are all big”, to“how do they interact to guide our behavior”. Self-verification theory has been widely applied to many domains.

Key words: self-verification, self-assessment, self-enhancement.