PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paracetamol, Peer Pressure, Social Comparison Theory
16 Jul 2018
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It literally hurts us to be isolated or rejected. Our brain interprets being socially isolated as literal pain. In the article, acetaminophen reduces social pain: behavioural and neural evidence, they found that tylenol helps to reduce hurt feelings - humansasasocialspecies. Most social influence processes are adaptive under most circumstances. They can turn maladaptive when they are blind or unquestioning. We seek to evaluate our abilities and beliefs by comparing them with those of others. Upward (superiors) and downward (inferiors) social comparison. An upward model is someone who is superior to us in some way and we compare us to ourselves. They are younger than us, have not achieved in things) tend to be more of a self-esteem boost. Ex. in a medal podium, the happiest person is the bronze medalist because he is doing a downward comparison to those that did not qualify to be on the podium, he"s happy to be there.
