Chapter 2: The Self In A Social World

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spotlight effect

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belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and behavior than they really are

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illusion of transparency

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illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others.

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self concept

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a person's answers to the question, "who am I?"

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self schema

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beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self revelant info

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possible selves

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images of what we dream of or dread becoming in the future.

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social comparison

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evaluting one's abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others

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individualism

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concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

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collectivism

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giving priority to the goals of one's groups (often one's exteneded family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly

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interdependence self

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construing one's identity in relation to others

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Planning fallacy

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tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task

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impact bias

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overestimating the enduring impact of emotion causing events

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immune neglect

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human tendency to understimate the speed and strength of "psychological immune system" which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen

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dual attitudes

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differing implicit automatic and explicit attitudes toward the same object

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self esteem

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person's overal self evalution of sense of self worth

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slef- efficacy

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sense that one is competent and effective distingusihed from self esteem, which is one's sense of self-worth.

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locus of control

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extent to which people percieve outcomes as internally controallable their own efforts or as externally controlled by chance or outside forces

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learned helplessness

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sense of hopelessness and resignation learned when a human or animal perceives no control over repeated bad events

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self-serving bias

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tendency to perceive oneself favorably

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self-serving attributions

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form of self serving bias; tendency to attribute positive outcome to oneself and negative outcomes to other factors

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defensive pessimism

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adaptive value of anticipating problems and harnessing one's anxiety to motivate effective actionfalse consesus effect

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false consensus effect

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tendency to overestimate the commonality of one's opinions and one's undesirable or unsuccesfl behaviors

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false uniqueness effect

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tendency to understimate the commonality of one's abilities and one's desirable or succesful behaviors.

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group serving bias

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explaining way outgroup membres positive behvaiors also attributing negative behvaiors to their dispositions.

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self handicapping

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protecting one's self image with behaviors that create a handy excuse for failures

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self presentations

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actingin ways designed to creat a favorable impression or one that corresponds to one's ideals

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self monitoring

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being attuned to the way one presents oneself in social situations and adjusting one's performance to creat he desired impression