PSYCH 2310 Lecture Notes - Self Esteem (Song), Basking In Reflected Glory, Pronoun
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Ways of looking at self-esteem: trait self-esteem & state self-esteem, state how do you feel about yourself at the present moment, stability of self-esteem, difference between adam and daniel, contingencies of self-esteem, explicit & implicit self-esteem. If self-esteem is important to people, people should be motivated to defend it when it is threatened: study on two groups told they passed or failed. Better-than-average effect: compensatory self-inflation, responding to self-esteem threat by bolstering self-evaluation in unrelated domain, basking in reflected glory (birging, boosting self-esteem by identifying with successful groups/people or distancing from unsuccessful groups/people, apparel study (cialdini) % of people wearing university attire when football team won or lost following monday: pronoun study (cialdini) Hard test, did well, insecure success/easy test, did well, secure success: second test. Drug choice when complete 2nd test: either activol (improves test performance, or pandorcrin (impairs test performance, participants that had secure success chose activol, while those that had insecure success chose pandorcrin.
