PSY325H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Positive Illusions, Social Rejection, Decision-Making
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How do people maintain positive self conceptions: self serving biases, self serving beliefs, self serving attributions, self serving behaviour, self serving comparisons, counterfactual thinking* With friends: modesty: have prior knowledge, self enhancement may be costly, can dispute overly favourable presentations, may have consequences for the relationship. Past selves: self verification, maintaining or establishing continuity in one"s behaviour or attributes over time to provide a sense of temporal stability in one"s qualities, self enhancement, one is doing better than one used to in the past. Lateral comparisons: comparing oneself to similar others, self assessment, provide an accurate self appraisal, self improvement, provide concrete information about a superior performance, provide hope, inspiration, and motivation, self enhancement, emphasize the advantages that the other person had that lead to his/her better performance, acknowledge the other person"s superior performance in one domain and derogate his/her abilities in another domain, exaggerate other person"s ability and see him/her as unusually good.
