PSY-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Quasi, Social Comparison Theory, University Of Michigan
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When we are thinking about and evaluating theories about ourselves, you will have your actual self vs. your ideal self. When our actual self is far away from ideal self, tend to feel worse about ourselves. When our actual self is close to ideal self, tend to be ok. Discrepancy between actual self and ideal self dictates our own self. How much you are focused on yourself; attention to yourself (with evaluation) Many things that help us more or less self-aware. Mirror: looking in a mirror tends to make people self-aware. Helps you to see where you want to be. On halloween, a researcher had a bowl of candy on a table also a bowl of coins. The manipulation was whether there was a mirror behind the bowl of candy, or not. He left to go to the kitchen and told, . Help yourself to one piece of candy. quasi variables: number of kids, and whether there was a mask.
