PSY 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Planning Fallacy, Collectivism, Individualism
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Spotlight effect - seeing ourselves at center stage, thus intuitively overestimating the extent to which others" attention is aimed at us. Illusion of transparency - illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others. We overestimate the visibility of our social blunders and public mental slips. Social relationships help define our sense of self. At the center of our worlds: our sense of self. Self-concept - what we know and believe about ourselves. Self-schemas - believes about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information. Fact how we perceive, remember, and evaluate other people and ourselves. Schemas - mental templates by which we organize our worlds. Social comparisons - evaluating one"s opinions and abilities by comparing oneself with others. Looking-glass self - how we think others perceive us as a mirror for perceiving ourselves. Not how others actually see us but the way we imagine they see us.
