Final Flashcards
Why do we use social media?
- # 1: relationship maintenance
- presentation
- self-esteem
- management of mood and emotions
What is the idealized virtual reality hypothesis?
profiles display idealized characteristics that do not reflect who we really are
What is the extended real life hypothesis?
people use social media to communicate their real personalities
What is extraversion associated with?
- More Facebook friends
- More likely to post about current activities and to post pictures
- Facebook provides extraverts with another way to communicate with friends and contacts made offline
What is neuroticism associated with?
- Spend more time on Facebook
- Show greater emotional attachment to Facebook
What is narcissism associated with?
- Posting more self-promotional information
- More likely to post selfies and edit posted photos
- Post deeper personal information that can be seen as cringey
What is loneliness associated with?
Share more personal information (wanting to connect with others)
What do people in happy relationships do?
- Post more selfies with partner
- More likely to have their partner in the profile picture
- Use more relationship maintenance behaviours (positivity and assurances)
What is avoidant attachment associated with?
- Preference to use social media to communicate with romantic partner rather than face-to-face
- Less visible relationships on Facebook
What is anxious attachment associated with?
associated with more partner-surveillance on Facebook
Which reasons do we use social media for?
- Facebook: Relationship maintenance and self-presentation
- Instagram: Self-documentation, self-promotion, showing creativity, and seeing other’s content
- TikTok: Self-documentation and creativity
- Twitter: Information sharing and consumption
What is a conspiracy theory?
The belief that several actors join together in secret agreement, in order to achieve a hidden goal which is perceived to be unlawful or malevolent
What is illusory pattern perception?
Detecting patterns in randomness
- More likely when dealing with chance or uncertain outcomes
What is agency detection?
Tendency to recognize intentionality in the actions of others
- Sometimes leads us to see agency where none exists
What are the characteristics of intergroup conflict related to conspiracy theories?
- Ingroup identification
- “Us vs. them” mentality
- Increases suspiciousness of other groups - Feelings of outgroup threat
How can conspiracy theories be reduced?
• Offering rational arguments for threatening events
• Empowering people when they feel scared and uncertain
- Procedural justice
Which traits were perceived most and least accurately on Facebook?
most accurate: E
least accurate: N
What is hedonic happiness?
Feel pleasure
- Feeling good
- Enjoyment and fun
- Maximizing positive emotion
- Minimizing negative emotions
What is eudemonic happiness?
Feel purpose
- Feeling fulfilled
- Pursuit of meaning in life
- Engagement
- Realizing full potential
What is set point theory?
- Happiness levels fluctuate around a genetically determined set point
- This set point tends to be positive, not neutral
- Different people, different set points
What traits have a strong genetic basic and therefore are strong predictors of happiness?
Extraversion and Neuroticism
How do you become happier (PERMA)?
- positive emotions
- engagement
- positive relationships
- meaning
- accomplishments/achievements
What are intentional activities?
- Wide variety of things that people do and think in their daily lives
- Actions or practices in which people can choose to engage in
- Require some effort
- Behavioural or cognitive
What happens when one feels threatened by outgroup (when ingroup members are victimized)?
Strongly connected with ingroup identity –> greater desire to make sense of threatening event –> belief in conspiracy theories
