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Self esteem
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a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs (for example, "I am competent", "I am worthy") and emotions such as triumph, despair, pride and shame
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Explicit self esteem
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entails more conscious and reflective self-evaluation.
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Implicit self esteem
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a person's disposition to evaluate themselves in a spontaneous, automatic, or unconscious manner.
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Name letter effect
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Like more Larry’s are cookie monsters
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Ownership effect
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Lottery ticket example..want more money for it if chose the numbers
Become infued with some sort of self Non obvious examples of how positive evaluations (both NLE and OwnE) of self bleed out to everyday behaviors |
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Implicit association test
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IAT: implicit, non-conscious attitudes of beliefs..how positively or negatlvely feel about self even if not aware..pair words
How quickly categorize on screen..take longer is “me” or “others” associated with good or bad..showing up together and being used together..easier than others to pair Uses word completion |
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Defensive is
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High explicit, low implicit
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3 contingencies of self worth
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Skills (academic, athletic, artistic)
Social (family, friends), Identity (racial group, gender) |
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What about contingencies of self worth
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Examines the domains that we feel good about in your life..some care more of how well we do and how well we liked and how we enjoy doing things in certain domains..might care about certain aspects of identities..we can feel good about ourselves in any of the domains and some more than others..the more domains you can draw on to feel good about self, the more buffer your overall self esteem will be from threats..if only care about skills, and fail a test, then will be shattering..if have all sorts of things that feel good about, and get bad grade, then still have everything else
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6 reasons according to Leary of why we have self esteem
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Inherent need
Not enough Comparison with standards Behavior is motivated by if we are meeting some kind of standard (like with ought, externat standards) One theory is self esteem evolved to see if stadards Facilitates goal achievement The benefits we gain and such striving toward the good self-esteem and such helps us move towards our goals Dominance Idea here is that feeling good about self is associated with feeling dominant..feeling dominant allows you to feel good about self and such Terror management Actions motivated by wanting to escape death We have ability to anticipate Strive towards self-esteem to distract selves from death..put people in negative experienced conditions..one case imagines self dying and other condition is to imagine terrible dental pain Only when thinking of death thinking of other things with self-esteem Sociometer Self esteem measures how much we are liked from other people..measures quality of relationships..our contrual of the quality..evolutionary root…we feel good when include us in group |
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Downside of self-esteem class
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People wont try..won’t challenge their selves because too high on themselves
Distinction from being and trying and worked really hard on problems Being mindset is any threat does not seem worth it, like failing hard test..not worth test…..not the case with trying |
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9 enhancement biases
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self handicapping
downward social comparisons BIRGing Unrealistic optimism Self-serving cognitions Including attributions Spotlight effect Illusion of transperency Unrealistic positive views |
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Self-handicapping
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Self defeating behavior that makes you more likely to fail, but convenient excuse if do
Going to party before exam |
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Downward social comparison
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Comparing yourself to someone worse off than you
Like cancer and what makes them better off than other group |
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BIRGing
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Looking at people better than us and use it to make feel better of ourselves
Basking in reflected glory…when we BIRG, we make ourselves better by associating ourselves with people who are actually better than ourselves Like associating themselves with winning team |
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Unrealistic optimism
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All of us engage in this to some extent..chart in book that lists events to estimate how likely happen to you or somebody else..we expect good things to be more likely to us than other people..expect bad things more likely for other people than us
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Self serving cognitions
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Self serving thought
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Including attributions
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Explanation for an event…when we blame personal failures on external events and personal successes on ourselves
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Spotlight effect
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everyone notices you
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Illusion of transparency
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Everybody read your thoughts
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Unrealistic positive views
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Everybody better than average
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False consensus effect
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People tend to think that the way they feel and what they do is more common than it actually is ..even if what they feel or do is relatively uncommon…agreed or disagreed to walk around with sandwich board looking like fool..can’t both be true..false consensus especially likely if thinking “lots of people would have done that”
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3 Goals of self presentation
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Accurate impression of self
See me for who I am Self-enhance See me as better than I am Impression management Constructing a specific impression Like Star Wars Weigh ease of deception against accountability |
