PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Comparison Theory, Asian Canadians, Rogue Trader
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Lecture 6: motivation: motivations related to survival and reproduction are cross culturally universal, by shaping our values and self-concepts, culture influences many of our motivations related to how we interact socially with the world around us. Fail driving test affects ego and then compensate by thinking you are a good at riding a bicycle: discounting: downplaying the importance or value of the attribute, e. g. I did bad on my statistics test, but who need"s statistics anyways: lowering the value, lowers the hit towards the ego it has made, external attributions: attributing failures to external factors (environment) rather than internal factors (ourselves, eg. Did bad on a test, because i didn"t have time to study: eg. When you did well, it"s not due to: basking in reflected glory: emphasizing one"s connection with people who are performing successfully. Do not make more upward than downward comparisons after failure. Make more upward than downward comparisons after a failure.
