SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture 8: Jan 28 - Identities

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

Document Summary

Example: swearing around your friends vs. around your parents. Easily transition between the roles technology can make it necessary to switch roles quicker (like getting a call from your boss while you are at home in a different role) Premise: behaviour is a product of our attempts to control our perceptions of situations in ways that confirm the meanings associated with our identities. Like a thermostat: we try to align the meanings of our situations with our identities. Defines the meanings attached to a particular identity in a. E. g. supervisor identity: people should do what i say. Phase 1: begin at meanings in the situation. Phase 2: subordinate responds by glaring at supervisor. This behaviour serves as input to the supervisor: comparator. Through reflected appraisals from phase 2, the supervisor perceives that their power is being undermined, creating a discrepancy between their identity standard and perception/input. Produces emotion and some kind of output: output.