PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Narcissism, Social Comparison Theory, Ingratiation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: M L Laliberte

Document Summary

Mostly studied in the 60s and 70s. Less today, but sometimes new things are added. High consensus on the concepts of the self which is why little research has been done recently: focus on the application of the self. Look at the content (who we are), process (what makes us us) and presentation (what do we want to share) Self individual is viewed as both the source and object of re exive behaviour: active who we are. I or the knower: passive becoming who we are, more of a process. Object of the self, me or the known. Always in development, but some of it is stable: the core bits are. Social in uence will change who we are. We study the self in social psych because : we are social animals, the self is constructed from social information, social behaviour is in uenced by self-related factors. The content of the self or the knowledge about who we are.