HDFS 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Egocentrism, Social Cognition, Virginity
14 Sep 2016
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Social cognition is the term used to describe the way we think about other people, social relationships and social institutions. Perspective taking: the ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of others, selmans research. Theory describing how perspective taking develops through a series of stages. Egocentrism of childhood mature perspective taking in. Adolescences egocentrism adolescences: having difficulty distinguishing your own thinking about yourself from their thinking about the thoughts of others, elkinds research, imaginary audience. Belief that others are acutely aware of and attentive to one"s appearance and behavior: personal fable. Belief that there must be something special, something unique about you- otherwise why would other be so preoccupied with you: optimistic bias. The tendency to assume that accidents, diseases and other misfortunes are more likely to happen to others than ourselves. Adolescents tend to have a stronger optimistic bias than adults.
