PSYC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Handicapping, Ingratiation, Psych

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 30
• Professor: Taylor

Document Summary

All the world"s a stage: managing others impressions. Impression management/self-presentation: deliberate control of ones public behaviour to create a certain impression. Common strategy for testing is comparing situations in which same behaviour is in public or private. Ingratiation: behaviour designed to make someone like us. Excessive amounts or obvious tactics can elicit suspicion and less likability. Self-promotion: behaviour that makes someone respect us. Can be detrimental for women since stereotype is modesty. Tendency to seek inhibitory factors that interfere with performances and provide explanation for potential failure. Done in three ways, direct action (not studying), taking on an obstacle, claiming there was another factor. First two are considered behavioural self-handicapping, third is self-reported handicapping. Men are more likely to behaviourally self-handicap. Individual differences in the tendency to engage in self-handicapping. Handicapping scale: how often people engage in self-handicapping. Children who report more depression also report more self-handicapping behaviour. The actor-observer difference attributions for behaviour where observers make internal attributions.