PSY 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Psy, Perceived Control
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Affiliation: (doing) - connections people feel to groups. Desire to establish, maintain, or restore positive-affect relations w/ others. Individual differences in the strength of a motive to pursue warm, close, communicative interactions with others. Women score higher on intimacy than men (as early as in 3rd grade) Values: conscious, cognitive constructs that articulate what we believe to be good, right and praiseworthy. Self-discrepancy theory: elaborates discrepancies (and effects of) between different aspects of our self concept. Actual self: the domain of everyday behavior. Ought self: the domain of values; attributes/characteristics that we believe we. Ideal self: the domain of goals & motives - what we"d like to possess should possess. Moral foundation theory: evolutionary account of the development of moral values. They establish and reinforce critical norms ~ at the social and cultural level (with social control mechanisms - e. g. ostracism, emotional/verbal responses, etc. ) Fairness/cheating - reap benefits of 2-way partnerships. Authority/subversion - force beneficial relationships within hierarchies.
