PSYC 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Comparison Theory
2 Apr 2018
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Growth perspective: to do things better you have to practice and you will eventually get better at it. Self-compassion: being kind to yourself when you fail. Think of what you would say to a friend who had the same thing happen. People with self-compassion tend to be more resilient in the face of failures have fewer mood swings. Self-affir(cid:373)atio(cid:374): re(cid:373)i(cid:374)di(cid:374)g yourself that o(cid:448)er all you"re a good perso(cid:374) People who do this feel better about themselves overall and they bounce back and keep trying. Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself (overall do you have a positive or negative view of yourself?) We can have different self-esteems in different domains but we also have an overall self-esteem. Western cultures like to maintain good self-esteem. Self-serving biases help us do this: downward social comparison, temporal self- comparison (comparing ourselves to our past selves), attributions for success/failure (internal vs. external), self-handicapping.
