PSY 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Impression Management, Cognitive Dissonance, Affective Forecasting
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What affects self-concept: other people, interactions and direct statements (for example commercials, social roles. Imagine how others perceive me and base self off that: disidentification. If feel like negatively evaluated, we disengage: collectivism, give priority to goals of the group, about relations to others and their connections to others, mainly asian countries, more conflict between groups. Individualism: giving priority to one"s own goals, one"s identity is in terms of personal attributes and not group identifications. Fail to plan for all the steps you"ll take: fight, flight, freeze relates to . Lafrance (2001) showed that women said if they encountered sexual harassment they"d be angry and enraged, but when it actually happened, they were mostly scared: affective forecasting: fail to accurately predict emotions about a situation. Self-control in one area does improve self-control in other areas too. Self-esteem: overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth. Low performance can increase motivation: self esteem maintenance theory, motivated to keep self-esteem high.
