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Spotlight Effect
When we think everyone is staring at us
The Self
Sense of personal identity, who we are
Self concept
Thoughts & feelings you have for yourself
Self-schema
Blueprint of who you are
Affect how we evaluate ourself
Possible selves
Who we want to become, doing everything we can to be/not to be a person we like or avoid
Origins of the self
Family and other socialization agents
Current situation
Culture
Gender
Social comparison
Family & other socialization agents
Important foundation, family that encourages have an impact on who you are
Looking glass self
People as mirrors
Reflected self-appraisals
Beliefs about what others think about us
Working self concept
Subset of self-knowledge that is brought to mind in a particular context
Social comparison theoryy
Upward: compare ourselves to those who are better (for motivation)
Downward: compare people at a disadvantage (for ego boosting)
Self esteem
How we feel about ourselves
Types of self esteem
Trait self-esteem
State self-esteem
Trait self-esteem
Stable across time
State self-esteem
Momentary feeling and based on situations
Contingencies of self worth
Success
Failures
Self enhancement
Desire to learn about, maintain, increase positive self-view
Self affirmation theory
Affirmation to self
Self-verification theory
Affirmation from others on what we already know
Actual self
Who we are
Ideal self
Who we want to be
Ought self
What we should be in society
Self efficacy
Sense of competence we feel on a task
Locus of control
Degree to which people assume that events in their lives are internally/externally controlled
Internal locus of control
Events in life are based on your decisions
External locus of control
Events happen because of luck or faith
Learned helplesness
Helplessness we learned because of repeated failure
Self-serving bias
Tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors
Impression management
Attempt by people to get others to see them as they want to be
Self handicapping strategy
We sabotage and blame it to others
Basking in reflected glory
Act as if we have a role of other people’s success
False modesty
Saying negative things to yourself so that others can correct you
Ingratiation
To get people to like us, we stuck up to them (sipsip)
Intimidation
Act of making others do what you want to do out of fear
Self promotion
Present themselves as competent in order promote themselves
Exemplification
Try to project a good image, present ourselves as honest
Supplication
Damsel in distress, a strategy wherein individuals advertise their weaknesses or shortcomings in order to elicit an attribution of being needy from observers
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