PSY325H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chocolate Cake, Cognitive Dissonance, Terror Management Theory
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The positive or negative evaluations that one holds toward oneself . Evaluation of our worthiness as individuals, a judgment that we are good valuable people (neff, 2011, p. 1). Main goal is to naintain social bonds: belonging is a fundamental need (baumeister & leary, 1995, adaptation (e. g. , social pain theory, relational value, state vs trait, motivation for increasing self-esteem. Predictions for sociometer theory: self-esteem depends on what others think about us, events that involve rejection should lower self-esteem. 2 (included or excluded) x 2 (random or vote) study person who was xcluded by a vote showed notably lower state self-esteem. Self-broadcasting: example: status-enhancement account of overconfidence (anderson, brion , confidence is competence. Self-broadcasting correlated to amount of likes. People with chronically low self-esteem expect negative evaluations (campbell & fehr: social anxiety, personality disorders. Low self-esteem has cascading effects on relationship quality over time (e. g. , murray et al. ,
