PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Narcissism, Positive Illusions

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Jacqueline L.Human

Document Summary

Heuristics are mental shortcuts used to make judgements: might override reasoning, awareness of the heuristics might minimise over-reliance. Availability heuristics- don"t equate ease of availability w accuracy. Representative heuristics- don"t equate similarity w accuracy; back up judgements w plausible intuitive but not always accurate base-rate information. Awareness of how others view us: carlson & furr, 2009: Participants rated how friends from different contexts viewed their personalities (e. g. university friends v/s hometown friends) Those friends then provided their impressions of the participants: on average, people have some insight into how different people view their personalities. Schema strength: markus, 1977, examined how self-schemas influence how we process information (speed, recall, integration, schematic (importance to sense of self) v/s aschematic (moderate, less important to sense of self) Very high self-esteem (narcissism: donnellan et al. , 2005 assessed both self-esteem and narcissism. Helps maintain self-worth: creswell et al. , 2005.