PSYCH 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Comparison Theory, Extraversion And Introversion
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January 26, 2016 social idenity and percepions in the. Social idenity theory: the will : people form percepions of themselves based on their personal characterisics and memberships in social categories, our sense of self is composed of a personal idenity and a social idenity. Membership of a group can deine who we are: personal idenity and internalizaion. Based on our unique personal characterisics (eg. interests, personality) We can see ourselves as beter people based on achievements: social idenity and ideniicaion. Based on our percepion that we belong to various social groups (eg. work group, culture) Posiive group performance can lead to a beter social idenity (ailiaions) You can belong to one group over another this is where social comparison colours our social idenity. We derive prototypes based of quick judgements of how we should interact with other people. Atribuion theory: the way : why, when, and how we atribute.