PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chameleon, Agreeableness, Alternative Hypothesis

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Richard N Lalonde

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Directs information of what we attend to. We filter the environment based on how we view ourselves. Study who are you ; i am : words used to describe yourself, found that people from different cultures provide different answers to this type of statement. Structure of the self: ma & schoeneman (1995) Compared american college students to various groups of. Found that the kenyan undergrads are similar to. There is a reversal of importance as you move out of urban/privileged sample. The way we describe ourselves show cultural values. Independent vs. interdependent view of self: markus and kitayama (1991) Most social psychology studies has been based on people having independent view of self. An interdependent view of self is more common in: independent view of self non-western culture. Other people are important too but they are separate from self independent from others.