PSYCO105 Lecture : March 21 - social psychology.doc
1 May 2012
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Simpson received fewest votes: people regard themselves in very positive terms above the mean on positive items and below the mean on negative items. Implicit egotism: a tendency to hold ourselves in high regard. Self serving bias: success internal attribution. Actor observer bias: actors attribute behaviour to situation, observers attribute same behaviour to person. Self handicapping: behaviours designed to sabotage ones own performance in order to provide a subsequent excuse for failure (set up failure, sandbagging , an ingenious strategy, does have its cost. The theory states that self-esteem is defined by the match between how we see ourselves and how we want to see ourselves. Engaging in behaviours designed to sabotage ones own performance in order to provide a subsequeny excuse for failure is known as Fritz heider: human beings are naive psychologists, people are often remarkably accurate and quick at assessing other"s personalities by observing their behaviour, our judgements sometimes suffer from biases.
