2 - The Social Self Flashcards
How do individualist cultures view self?
Independent, stable view of self
How do collectivist cultures view self
Interdependent, changing
Individualistic in-group interaction
Some influence on self
Collectivist in-group
Includes acquaintances, firm in-group
Self monitoring
Shape behaviour in response to self-presentation concerns in situation
Self-regulation
Control thought/feelings/behaviours to achieve personal or social goals
Self-presentation
Strategies used to shape what others think of them
Why do collectivists score low on Rosenburg’s self esteem scale?
All questions are based on independent views of self
Why do people engage in cognitive biases?
Enhance/maintain SE
3 aspects of self-serving cognitive biases
Attentional, encoding, recall
How do self-serving cog biases help cope with failures?
Self-enhancement of good, discounting of bad
Unrealistic positive self views are the result of
Positives being encoded more than negatives
Just world hypothesis
Good things happen to good people & vice versa
Self serving attributional bias
Internal attribution for success, external for failure
Downward social comparison
Doing better than someone
Upward social comparison
Someone better than you
Basking in reflected glory
Associating with winners
According to tesser’s SE model, when will you bask in reflected glory?
- when close relationship & low relevance to self
-distant relationship & high relevance to self
According to tesser’s SE model, when will you use upward social comparison?
Close relationship and high relevance to self
Self-handicapping
Sabotage own performance to provide excuse for failure
Over-justification effect
Intrinsic motivation diminishes for activities that have become associated with reward/extrinsic factors
Social comparison theory
People evaluate own abilities/opinions by comparing self to others
Self-perception theory
Internal cues hard to interpret -> gain self insight by observing own behaviour
Self-concept theory
Sum of total individual’s beliefs about own personal attitudes
Self schema
Belief people hold about themselves that guide processing of self-relevent information
What 2 aspects are emotions based on according to two-factor emotion theory
- Physiological arousal
- Cog interpretation of arousal
Terror management theory
Humans cope with fear of death by constructing worldviews that help preserve self-esteem
Private self consciousness
Characteristic of introspective individuals
Public self-consciousness
View themselves as social objects
