PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collectivism, Positive Illusions, Social Comparison Theory
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Memories float into our conscious and with this we put together who we are: philosophers first person to explore this idea, descartes explored what it meant to feel being a person. Individual self: beliefs about our unique personal traits, abilities, preferences, tastes, talents, and so forth. Relational self: beliefs about our identities in specific relationships. We highlight aspects of the self that make us feel most unique in a given context. For instance, age seems more important to self-definition if you are surrounded by much older people: social context: Sense of self may shift dramatically depending on with whom we are interacting. Parent vs friend likely to act quite different especially prominent to people who are bicultural: culture and the social self: Independent view of self: self seen as a distinct, autonomous entity, separate from othe(cid:396)s a(cid:374)d defi(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual t(cid:396)aits a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)efe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es. (cid:862)(cid:449)ho a(cid:373) i (cid:449)hat do i (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)e(cid:863)
