PSY 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psy, Terror Management Theory
20 Sep 2016
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Leads people to notice self-discrepancies, thereby motivating either an escape from self- awareness or a change in behavior. Kids on halloween told to take one piece of candy. Coopersmith (1967): our positive & negative evaluation of ourselves. Greenberg/solomon/pyszcynski (1997): the perception that one is a valuable member of a meaningful universe. Culturally dependent & looks at the bigger picture. High vs. low, fragile vs. secure, intrinsic vs. extrinsic (not one or the other, just differing levels) Higgins: self-esteem is defined by the match/mismatch between how we see ourselves & how we want to. Amount of discrepancy, importance of discrepancy, focus on the discrepancy all affect person. Egocentric bias = college students with low scores on logic, grammar, an humor (12 th percentile) overjudged their own abilities (62nd percentile) Associate with others who are successful (ex: more college students wear school shirts after victory than loss) Behaviors designed to sabotage one"s own performance in order to provide subsequent excuse for failure.
