PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Skin Cancer, Substance Abuse, Symbolic Interactionism
11 Mar 2013
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Reflected appraisals: others" appraisals (of us) shape self understanding, the looking glass self (cooley, 1902, our sense of self is based on how others see us Symbolic interactionism (mead, 1934): the self is developed and understood in the social realm, others" appraisals shape our understanding of ourselves, how others see us is the way we see ourselves. Evidence: correlations between self-views and other views are small, very little correlations between realistic view of self and others really see us, however, self views correlate highly with how we think others see us. What do i know about him? : if guy attractive and traditional, women confirmed to stereotype, also, women interacting with attractive traditional male performed worse on intelli- gence test. The self as an arbiter: do we always give in to others" judgments, motives for self-presentation, instrumental rewards, constructing an image of oneself and claiming and identity, we see a positive identity of ourselves as a reward.
