PSY 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Pearson Education
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Conformity to dress, habits, language, & rules of peers can be highly influential. Identification with peer group is key to survival of the next generation (peer acceptance very important) Peers shape expression of personality traits, with emphasis on some and downplaying others. Personality may also influence the types of peers we are drawn to in the first place: culture. A program of shared rules that governs the behaviour of members of a community or society and a set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of that community. May be as influential as any biological process. Task: ask yourself the question who are you? in terms of your personality. Cultures in which the self is regarded as autonomous, and individual goals and wishes are prized above duty and relations with others. Cultures in which the self is regarded as embedded in relationships, and harmony with one"s group is prized above individual goals and wishes.
