Module 64: Exploring the Self

Self

In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions

Spotlight effect

Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

Self-esteem

Ones feelings of high or low self worth

Self-efficacy

One’s sense of competence and effectiveness

Excessive optimism

Natural positive thinking, can promote “unrealistic” ideals about future

Blindness to one’s own incompetence

Describes how people lack competence of their own shortcomings

Self-serving bias

A readiness to perceive one self favorably

Narcissism

Excessive self-love and self-absorption

Individualist

Giving priority to one’s own goals over group’s goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

Collectivist

Giving priority to the goals of one’s group