PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Normative Social Influence, Job Interview, Symbolic Interactionism
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Individuals want to have a positive view of themselves. When we make judgments about the self, it is often by way of comparisons to others. The self is largely constituted through our social interactions. The self is developed and understood in the social realm. How others see us = the way we see ourselves. Correlations between self-views and other views are small. Although this correlation was small, the correlation was higher between self-views and how we think others see us: some distortion when we think about the self (illusions, we distort the feedback we receive from others. We may give more weight the positive evaluations and less weight to the negative criticism we receive: people do not always tell us what they really think of us. We seek social validation and want to interact with others that conform to the sort of view that we would like others to have of us.
