PSYC 215 Lecture : march 20 2012- psych 215.docx
16 May 2012
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In order to maintain your good mood, you will be more agreeable. If themes of empathy are characterizing your feeling towards someone, you might want to do something nice for them. Receiving help can actually be a thread to one"s self-esteem. When you help, you are underlying the lack of autonomy in another individual. This threatens self-esteem, and you may react negatively to this. If it is a parent helping, it is not so bad because you assume that they know more and you aren"t expected to. But people on a similar plain might make others feel inferior. When you are helped by someone that you know, and it is something that you consider to be a domain that is close to your sense of identity, this can lead to negative reactions. Something that we have an intuitive sense for, and it is something that is difficult to define.
