PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Hot Sauce
28 Dec 2015
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Social standards and norms affect evaluation of others and of self and self- regulation, Humans have concerns about their existence that affect thinking and behaviour. Human being has certain cognitive abilities: self-awareness, imagination, absurdity. Thinking about how the universe is enormous, huge. How tiny we are, and how you are just a speck limited in time. We try to cope in various ways. Afterlife beliefs, drugs: death, directly, indirectly; A common (indirect) way of coping with death anxiety is to maintain a: maintain a cultural worldview, see self as a valued member of the culture (increasing self-esteem) Cultural worldviews imbue the world with meaning, order, stability and permanence, and by so doing, buffer the anxiety that results from living in a terrifying and largely uncontrollable universe in which death is the only certainty . Study 1: allows us to have an organised world view, upholding cultural values as a way of maintaining one"s cultural.
