3 Spotlight readings (Hampton & Varnum;Hudd & Moscovitch;Ferrari & Thompson)

What cultural groups were being compared in Hampton & Varnum (2018)?

European-American and Chinese

What tool did Hampton & Varnum (2018) use to detect self-enhancement at the brain level?

N400 word pair association task to determine the positive and negative associations people have with the self and others.

What differences did Hampton & Varnum (2018) expect to see between groups in terms of self-enhancement, and why?

Weaker self-enhancement tendencies for Chinese participants than European-American

Which group had stronger self-enhancement tendencies in Hampton & Varnum (2018)?

European-American

What is the cyberball task as described in Hudd & Moscovitch (2022)?

It is a social inclusion task where participants are excluded at varying degrees from a passing-the-ball digital game.

What two very different responses can social exclusion or rejection prompt according to Hudd & Moscovitch (2022)?

Enhanced desire to reconnect, and a weaker desire to approach social situations

How did the authors of Hudd & Moscovitch (2022) hypothesize people with social anxiety would respond to social exclusion?

Social anxiety and social exclusion would lead to a decrease in approach motivation after social exclusion.

Did social exclusion and social pain lead to an approach-like desire to reconnect or social withdrawal in Hudd & Moscovitch (2022)?

approach-like desire to reconnect

Did the response to social exclusion differ depending on level of social anxiety in Hudd & Moscovitch (2022)?

In general both groups felt approach motivation after social exclusion. But those higher levels of SA had in general less desire to connect socially.

In Study 1, imposter fears were related to which three other constructs?(Ferrari & Thompson, 2006)

perfectionistic self-presentation(showing, deceptive self-enhancement (thinking, i.e., inflation of ones skills) and avoidance of imperfection (avoiding)

In Study 2, what were the three experimental conditions?(Ferrari & Thompson, 2006)

Success, face-saving (allowed to attribute failure to external), and humiliation condition (participants failed and were not able to attribute it to anything external)

In Study 2, what was the dependent variable being measured?(Ferrari & Thompson, 2006)

Claimed handicap and behavioural handic