PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Social Comparison Theory, Extraversion And Introversion
6 Nov 2017
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Social acceptance and self-esteem extent to which a person is included or looked of favorably by others. Self-esteem is an internal, subjective index or marker of the. Most westerners tend to have a positive view of the self. Tend to rate the self as better than average on most traits. Weigh abilities we excel at as more valuable. A model that maintains that people are motivated to view themselves in a favorable light and that they do so through two processes: reflection and social comparison. Motivated to have views of the self that are accurate, consistent, and coherent. Desire accurate views of abilities to ensure more success and less failure in social. Processes that people use to initiate, alter, and control their behavior in the. A state produced by acts of self-control, in which people lack the energy or resources to engage in further acts of self-control.
