Chapter 3 Study’s And Other info Flashcards
Mehl Study: performance assessment
Study asking participants to rate how accurate they think people are at assessing how much they themselves perform 25 different behaviours, also asked how accurate they think people are at predicting how often other people they know well perform these behaviours
-rated accuracy if self-predictions to be greater than accuracy if predictions of others
-reports of close friends are as accurate as our own in anticipating our actual behaviour
Both self and other have accurate insight into who one is
Some aspects of a person are uniquely known to self and certain aspects uniquely known to others
Cohen and Gunz study: Storytelling
Asked Canadian and Asian students to tell stories about 10 different situations in which they were the Center of attention
-Canadians: more likely than asians to reproduce the scene from their original point of view, looking outward from their own perspective
-Asians - more likely to imagine the scene as an observer might, describing it from 3rd person perspective
-westerners tend to experience and recall events from inside out - themselves at Center looking out at world
-Easterners - more likely to experience and recall evens from outside in - starting from social world looking back at selves as an object of attention
Construal
The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the world around them
High-Level Construals
Focus on abstract, global, and essential features
-involve seeing the Forrest
-facilitate self control
-increase people’s appreciation of the consequences that their choices and behaviours have for their long-term goals
-place emphasis on people’s larger goals and values
Low-level construals
-Emphasize salient, incidental, and concrete details
-Lower level construals put the spotlight on the trees (as opposed to the Forrest)
-Lower level construals decrease people’s appreciation for the consequences their choices and behaviours have for their long-term goals
Stern and West study: implementation intentions
-test whether formation of implementation intentions might make stressful social interactions more pleasant
-found that implementation intentions that specified an anxiety reducing behaviour when feeling uncomfortable increased likelihood of a successful interaction
Gosh Bach, Friedman and Kruglanski study: cookies
Did study to see if cookies will make you out healthy diet on the back burner - found that seeing cookies makes you think more about your goal to eat healthy - temptations become linked to memory of your goal
Social self
A dramatic performance in which we try to project a public self consistent with our hopes and aspirations
Public self
One we actively create in our social interactions and that is shaped by the perceptions of others and the perceptions we want others to have of us
-is concerned with self presentation - presenting the person we would like others to believe we are (impression management)
Self monitoring
The tendency to monitor one’s behaviour to fit the demands of the current situation
Self-handicapping
Tendency to engage in self-defeating behaviour to protect the self in public and prevent others from making unwanted inferences based on poor performance
Self-handicapping study
Participants led to believe they were either going to succeed or going to have difficulty on a test they were scheduled to take
-were offered to take 1 of 2 meds - a performance enhancing or performance inhibiting drug
-those who felt likely to fail test preferred performance inhibiting drug even though it was likely to diminish their chances of succeeding - people would rather fail and have a ready excuse for it than go for success and have no excuse for failure
