PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Asian Canadians, Learned Helplessness, Collectivism
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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. Self enhancement is the motivation to view oneself positively. Upward social comparisons: when we compare our performance with someone who is doing better than we are: these tend to be rather painful because the contrast can make your own performance look that much worse. Compensatory self-enhancement: acknowledging negative feedback, but then focusing on the things that one is good at: you get a bad grade, but then you remember how much of a good painter you are. Discounting: downplaying the importance or value of the attribute: reducing the perceived importance of the domain in which you performed poorly, ex: you do bad on a test so you say it isn"t important.
