PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Collectivism, Social Comparison Theory, Hikikomori
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Moivaion = the reasons behind the things that we do. All humans experience fundamental moivaions related to survival and reproducion. But, culture shaped people"s values and the manner in which people view themselves, so it inluences moivaions. Self-enhancement is predicated on the moivaion to view oneself posiively once viewed to be universal. Leads to self-serving biases tendencies to overstate one"s atributes. Example: 94% of professors see themselves as beter than average. Usually seen with atributes that don"t yield concrete negaive feedback. Downward social comparison comparing oneself to someone who is worse of than you. Compensatory self-enhancement acknowledging negaive feedback, but them focusing on the things that one is good at. I am bad at working, but i am good at talking. Discouning downplaying the importance or value of the atribute. I am bad at cross-cultural psychology, but the cross-cultural psychology is useless. External atribuions atribuing failures to external factors (environment) rather than internal factors (ourselves)
