PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Rejection, Learned Helplessness, Social Network
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Sum of our positive and negative evaluations of ourselves: our overall feeling of self worth, general feeling. Self esteem is a state of mind that can fluctuate with life experiences: not completely fixated. Self esteem fluctuates across time and those changes are bigger for some people. For some people they are bigger then others. If they don"t vary much, they are more stable stable (from study of self esteem across seven days; one fluctuated a ton and one was stable but both had 55. 1 and 55 average level) Stable high people are pretty secure in this positive self feelings. In reality they gave a speech and a confederate was watching them. How likeable: high self esteem (unstable)- confident; you think they are the. False consensus and uniqueness: beliefs, tend to think others believe what we believe, behaviors and traits: depends.
