Self-Presentation Flashcards
How do people gain Self-Knowledge?
- Introspection - is the most common way - looking inwardly to assess and understand why we do what we do
- Considering ourselves from other’s Vantage Point
How do people portray themselves on social media?
People attempt to portray themselves a little more positively than they are in reality on social media.
Do other people know better than we know our own selves?
The answer is yes and no which is complex.
Even though we have access to information (Intentions, goals) that others do not, that information itself may bias our own behavioral self-reports.
On the other hand, research that recorded people’s actual behavior revealed that sometimes others can predict our own behavior better than we can, but sometimes the reverse is true.
What are different self-promotion strategies that people use?
Self-Promotion - One ensures that others form impressions based on their favorable self-aspects, in this way people engage in self-Promotion
Self-deprecation - Implication that one is not as good as the other person by communicating admiration or by simply lowering an audience’s expectations of our abilities.
Ingratiation tactics - Present oneself to others as someone who particularly respects or values them.
What is self-verification?
It is a technique where we agree with others’ self-presentations in turn they agree with our self-views, as a means of achieving self-verification
Do people present honestly on Social media?
People usually tend to present their ‘ideal self’ than their ‘actual self’.
Sometimes when people are not perfectly honest with other people, and this is often rewarded with greater popularity.
Can we know the reasons for the way we acted?
Sometimes, we have mistaken results about our actions if we do not have conscious access to the factors that actually influenced our responses, although after the fact we can and do construct explanations that seem plausible to us.
Do we predict our futures correctly?
No. When it comes to predicting how we might feel in the future, we fail to take into account other events that will moderate how we will feel besides the extreme and isolated event being judged.
Does spending money on ourselves make us happy?
Research shows that spending money on others makes us happier than spending money on ourselves.
Because sometimes we don’t know how our actions affect us so introspecting about it won’t help
Is self-reflection helpful?
Yes, One way it can be helpful is to take an observer’s standpoint on our behavior. Doing so leads us to see ourselves in more trait-like consistent terms, as observers tend to.
What does social Identity theory indicate?
It indicates that we can think about ourselves differently depending on which aspect of self is salient along with the personal versus social identity continuum.
At the personal end of this continuum, we think of ourselves primarily as individuals. At the social end, we think of ourselves primarily as members of specific social groups.
What are intragroup contrasts?
When the personal self is salient, our behavior is based on intragroup contrasts - comparison with ingroup members
What are intergroup contrasts?
When the social self is salient, behvaior reflects intergroup comparisons - contrasts with Outgroup members
Remember: people have multiple social identities, each of which could have rather different implications on behavior, depending on which is activated in a particular context
What are the gender differences in self-construal?
Gender differences in self-construal will be exhibited most when our gender group identity is salient, and they may be absent entirely when another group identity is salient.
For e.g., gender differences in perceived insecurity of the self across five different nations are observed when the self is compared to members of the other gender group but not when the self is compared to members of one’s own gender group
What are the different factors that influence what aspect of the self is salient?
Factors are:
1) When the context makes one aspect particularly relevant
2) when the context makes one aspect distinct from others
3) When one is of greater importance to us, and others’ treatment or language use
