PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Positive Illusions, Claude Steele, Cognitive Load
11 Dec 2015
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Temporal comparisons (instead of comparing with others, compare with self) Less threatening than social comparison (we compare to superior others) and enhances self (we compare to worse selves) *i improved so much comparing to 10 years ago: glorify recent self-success. *reflect in one"s own glory (when distant past and recent past very close = no effect; when it"s more distant, think of distant past as much worse and recent past as much better) Self-esteem and success of others is function of others": closeness to us. *reflected glory if close but not relevant domain to us: importance. Are we solely motivated to enhance but not seeking truth? (swann) We want control and predictability over enhancement (to predict response from others for smooth interaction) To test this issue, we need to recruit those with high and truly low self-esteem (along, we need others" evaluation of one and one"s self-evaluation)
