PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Comparison Theory, Ingroups And Outgroups, Investment
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Self-esteem: the positivity of your overall evaluation of yourself. Self-serving biases: tendencies for people to exaggerate how good they think they are people do this b/c they are motivated to view themselves positively. These unrealistic positive self-assessments are sustained b/c people rarely encounter concrete information in these domains without this info there is nothing to prove that one is not above average. People who are motivated to secure a positive self-view are often resourceful enough to figure out a way to get one ex. Downward social comparison: comparing your performance with the performance of someone who is doing even worse than you. Upward social comparison: comparing our performance with someone who is doing better than we are. Compensatory self-enhancement: you acknowledge the poor grade you got in class but instead start to think about your excellent clarinet-playing skills. Discounting: reducing the perceived importance of the domain in which you performed poorly.
