PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pessimism, Social Comparison Theory, Job Interview
5 Sep 2018
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There"s a fundamental misconception about the power of time = rate of change slows over human lifespan, but change doesn"t slow down as much as we think. End of history illusion = 18-year olds anticipate changing as much as 50-year olds actually do. Illusion = personal history has just come to an end and we become the people we were always meant to be and will be for the rest of our lives. 3 values that will change overtime: pleasure, success and honesty. Important to know ourselves to be able to adapt to life in society: the self is constructed from social information = how other people react to us and what we do or say, etc. May change us when we incorporate the information: our social behaviours are influenced by self-related factors = how we view ourselves (ex. Inconsistency between self-concept and experience evokes anxiety and threat: ex.
