CMST 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Impression Management, Harry Stack Sullivan, Identity Management
22 Apr 2018
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Cmst week 3 - perception of self, and communication. Quiz- january 19th on chapter 2 and assigned reading. Me too or times up: using stories loosely - tell one person something and then telling a different story to others, could have problematic or changing narratives that could lower the level of trust. Common perceptual tendencies (attribution errors: we often judge ourselves more charitably than we judge others. !2: intense (personalities, colours, repetitious (ticking clocks, repeated behaviours, contrastive (normally happy me- doesn"t interact/grumpy, we cling to first impressions, even if wrong. Try to maintain an open mind: labelling people is a way of making interpretations. Mental shortcuts (heuristics- in our active brain we want to have easy things to recall: we tend to assume that others are similar to us. People commonly imagine that others have the same attitudes and motives that they do. Not even in the same university/ same family: we tend to favour negative impressions over positive ones.
