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Chapter 3: Social Self

Chapter 3: Social Self. Part 2: Feb. 2, 2012. Self-esteem. Positive and negative evaluations of ourselves What purposes are served by SE? 1. 2. Correlations w/self-esteem:. Contributors to Self-Esteem. Self-discrepancy theory – What is compared? We differ in degree of self-awareness:

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Chapter 3: Social Self

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  1. Chapter 3: Social Self Part 2: Feb. 2, 2012

  2. Self-esteem • Positive and negative evaluations of ourselves • What purposes are served by SE? • 1. • 2. • Correlations w/self-esteem:

  3. Contributors to Self-Esteem • Self-discrepancy theory – • What is compared? • We differ in degree of self-awareness: • How does it affect our behaviors? • Halloween study – kids and free candy! Results?

  4. Self-regulation • Baumeister’s research on limits of self-control • It requires lots of cognitive resources • Self-control is a limited resource • Link to glucose? • What are Baumeister’s research results? • How to re-energize our self-control? • 1. • 2.

  5. Boosting self-concepts • Our tendency to overestimate our abilities may serve a purpose related to self-concept • “implicit egotism” – • Self-serving cognitions – • 1. Take credit for successes:

  6. Self-serving cognitions (cont.): • 2. Self-handicapping: • What is its purpose? • 3. Identifying with groups and BIRGing: • ‘we won’ versus ‘they lost’

  7. 4. Downward social comparisons • How do these work and why? • Example: sibling rivalry

  8. Self-presentation • We may overestimate extent to which others are focus on us • ‘spotlight effect’ • 2 motives of self-presentation: • Strategic self-presentation and self-verification

  9. Strategic self-presentation • Strategies? • Possible link with unsafe behaviors?

  10. Self-verification • Attempt to increase overlap between self-perceptions & how others see us • Negative traits? • Swann’s research – with whom do we associate? • How does this work in romantic relationships?

  11. Self-monitoring • Individual difference in how well we can regulate our own behavior in response to others’ reactions • How do high vs. low self-monitors behave? • Links between self-monitoring and age?

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