Social Psychology Chapter Three: The Social Self

Self-Presenation

The effort to manage the impressions others have of us so they believe what we are the person we want them to think we are

Self-Verification

Striving for stable, subjectively accurate beliefs about ourselves because such self-views give us a sense of coherence and predictability

Self-Monitoring

The tendency to supervise and adjust one’s behavior to the demands of the situation

Self-Affirmation

Maintaining an overall sense of self-worth after negative feedback by considering a positive aspect of the self unrelated to the negative feedback