PSYC 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mark Leary, Lexical Decision Task, Social Class
2 Oct 2014
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If its slipping you"ll hate it but if its driving and doing its job you"ll value it. Wired-in? : some possible underpinnings of self-esteem motive, mastery, social sources. Wired to feel good when we are competent. More likely to make an effort to master the environment once again because you already succeeded once. Feel good about yourself because of that. Social inclusion: wired to feel good when accepted, attached, we"re social animals, social inclusion: key ideas, need to belong. Self-esteem does correlate with feelings of being accepted and supported by significant others. We like to feel linked: contingent on conditional acceptance. How would i feel about myself (if i had certain successes and failures) correlates with would others include or exclude me (if i had certain successes and failures) Measuring your contingency of accepting yourself with the contingencies of social acceptance.
