COMM 1076 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Self Esteem (Song), Nerd, Intimate Relationship
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The way you think about yourself: others" images, other people are constantly telling you who you are, literally tell you with words who you are : smart, funny, etc. Influential when we are young, still affect you to this day: social comparisons a. Men vs women and how they are valued: cultural teachings, macro cultures vs. micro cultures. Concepts distorted by how much your culture tells you and. Tell you how you should act, behave, think, different cultural expectations. For men than for women: own evaluations (self-talk) Influenced by all three things above at some point. Ex: religion and how it plays like god being a cultural teaching like growing up catholic would be in cultural teachings. All of us have a running dialog in our head. Self-talk influences your self confidence: catch what you say to yourself, don"t al(cid:449)ays focus on the negati(cid:448)e. Don"t constantly compare yourself to others and talk yourself down,
