PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Comparison Theory, Overseas Filipinos, East Asian Languages
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People have strong need to view themselves positively. Self-esteem measures: when asked to complete a measure, vast majority found to have high self-esteem. Studies that investigate what ppl do to secure positive evaluation of themselves when encountering. Resourceful to figure out way to get a positive self-view. Downward social comparison: cast own performance in positive light. Compensatory self-enhancement: acknowledge poor grade but think about excellent skills elsewhere. Discounting: reducing perceived importance of domain of poor performance. Comparing positivity of self-views of mexican-american and european-american preschool/elementary. Shown photos of other children and photo of themselves. Choose photos of children who possessed # of positive characteristics: children from both cultural groups viewed themselves quite positively, and included their own pics, european-americans did so even more than mexican-americans. Describe yourself in an open-ended questionnaire: native american self-views less positive than those of european americans, listed fewer than half as many positive statements as european-americans did.
