PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Normative Social Influence, Psych, Narcissism
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More important than things that do not touch it. Information relating to self is processed more deeply and remembered better. Items gain in value to person who owns them. Adults take up new hobbies or break bad habits. Change how you think of yourself or change your behavior and a change in self-concept will follow. What goes on inside the person is mainly there to serve the interpersonal processes. People tend to revise their stories once the self-concept has. How favorably someone evaluates himself or herself. High self-esteem: competent, likable, attractive, and morally good. Low self-esteem: incompetent, ugly, unlikable and morally wicked. People use self-deception strategies to maintain a positive outlook. Using self-serving bias: we take credit for success and for failures we blame external forces. Self-handicapping: drinking or doing some other activity that will inhibit performance. Failure can be blamed on the obstacle. Example: drunk people do not perform as well as sober ones.
