The Social Self (3) key terms Flashcards
Affective forecasting
When people try to predict how they’re gonna feel about a situation in the future. Belongs to Introspection
Bask in reflecte glory (BIRG)
When people identify themselves with a succesful group of people, like a winning sports team, to feel better about themselves and improve their self-esteem
Dialicticism
This means that you’re able to accept that contradicting characteristics can coexist in the same person. This often occurs in eastern cultures
Downward social comparisson
When you compare yourself to a person who’s less successful than you, when you yourself have failed, to uphold your self-esteem
Facial feedback hypothesis
This is the idea that different facial expressions trigger you to feel an emotion associated with that facial expression (James Laird) . It is part of the social perception theory
Implicit egotism
This is when people unconsciously show signs of self-esteem
Overjustification effect
This shows that when people are rewarded for an activity they were intrinsically motivated for, they will lose intrinsic motivation for that activity
Private self-consciousness
When a person is more likely to introspect about their feelings
Public self-consciousness
When a person in more likely to pay attention to their public image
Self-awareness theory
This theory states that when people are forced to focus on themselves, they mainly see their discrepancies, which they then want to reduce by escaping their awareness or change their behavior (Robert Wicklund et al.)
Self-concept
The sum total of beliefs a person has about themselve
Self-esteem
A person’s positive or negative evaluations of themselves
Self-handicapping
This describes he tendency for people to purposefully set themselves up for failure, so that when they fail, they have an excuse for it and can uphold their self-esteem
Self-monitoring
This describes the tendency for people to adapt their behavior to fit social settings (Mark Snyder). You can either be high or low in self-monitoring
Self-perception theory
This states that people observe and interpret their own behavior when their internal states don’t provide an explanation for that behavior (Daryl Berm)