PS270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Affective Forecasting, Impact Bias, Narcissism
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Chapter 2: the self in a social world. Introduction: social surroundings affect our self-awareness, self-interest colours our social judgement, self-concern motivates our social behaviour, social relationships help define the self. Your sense of self: hemisphere, self-schemas: mental templates by which we organize our worlds. Possible selves: who we might become: development: Social identity we form: social definition of who you are. Social comparisons: evaluating your abilities and opinions by comparing yourself to others. Other people"s judgements: looking glass self (how we think others perceive us as a mirror for perceiving ourselves), the way we imagine others see us. Culture and cognition: collectivism results in different ways of thinking. The mental processes that control our social behaviour are distinct from the mental processes through which we explain our behaviour. Dual attitudes: differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (controlled) attitudes toward the same object. Self-esteem: a person"s overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth.
