PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stroop Effect, Hyperbolic Discounting, Impression Management
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Dual attitudes: poor access to our own mental processes - maybe we don"t perceive a lot of stimuli, interpret it with bias, we don"t really know what"s going on in our own brain. We cognitively re ect our behaviour and try to explain it (greenwalt & banaji, 1995; Nisbett & wilson, 1977: analyzing why a poster was attractive, reduced satisfaction. Give you stimuli by black/white face, and yes key to decide if they"re good or bad. How good you feel about yourself in the social environment we live in. Attitude towards, or evaluation of, the self : leary et al. , (1995) sociometer theory; indicator of our social value. Motivated to maintain high self esteem (people rarely report less than mid point; People want to have positive social interactions. Low self esteem predicts aggression, anti social behaviour and delinquency (donnellan et al, 2005: lower socio economic status predicted of falling in these behaviours.
