PSYO 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cocktail Party, Motivation, Social Comparison Theory
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If we want to be better (feel worse: downward social comparison: comparing ourselves to people who are worse than we are on a particular ability. Culture: the beliefs, customs, habits, and language share by people living in a particular perspective. Individualistic: culture value with virtues of independence, autonomy, and self- reliance: collectivistic: culture values of independence cooperation, and social harmony take priority over personal goals. As a way of protecting self from seeing failure as due to a lack of ability: self-handicapping: a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iors desig(cid:374)ed to sa(cid:271)otage o(cid:374)e"s own performance on order to provide a subsequent secure for failure, **sandbagging. What is self-presentation: self-presentation: the process through which try to control the impressions people form of us, synonymous with impression management. Why do people self-present: to acquire desirable resources, to maintain/ construct their self-image, to enable our social encounters to run more smoothly.
