PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Justin Bieber, Narcissism, Webcam
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Writing my name on my paperback books as a teenager. On every book, he wrote the great rich koestner , rich koestner the. He was trying to re-assure himself because at the time, he wasn"t feeling so great about himself. Study: confederate was trained to do a task and either be self-criticizing, self-enhanced, or neutral. He found that people who were self-critical received support from the participants. But later, they received lower ratings on competence etc. if you"re with someone who is self-enhancing, the participants rated them as highly competent, but they didn"t like the person. Diary style books that usually begin on the first day of school. On the first day, you either want to sit beside a good looking person or a friend. All the boys are obsessed with being popular with the girls. Greg is pre-occupied with his popularity/status in his grade. This is what middle school is about and it"s normal.