PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Basking In Reflected Glory, Social Cognition, Positive Illusions
9 Mar 2021
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Video 1- factors shaping your sense of self. Factors that shape your sense of self: parenting styles/family, peers/friends/social groups, culture, past experiences, genetic dispositions, social roles, memories, future goals, factors such as these combine and interact to define our self-concepts. Our self-concept is inherently social: our beliefs and feelings about ourselves influence the way we perceive, judge and behave toward others, the way that others behave toward us influences our beliefs and feelings toward ourselves. Ideal self: ought self, we are sensitive to contradictions among these different representations of self- feel emotional discomfort. Culture: there are many different ways to think about culture (our ancestry, country, school or workplace etc. , on distinction that social psychologists have studied extensively is independent vs. Independent (individualistic) cultures value individuality, autonomy and self-reliance. Interdependent (collectivist) cultures value fitting in, cooperation and social harmony: sometimes referred to as western vs. eastern: too broad.
