PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neuroticism, Stress Management, Psych
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Self-monitoring- reliance on internal or external cues to guide behavior. 90% of recruiters and hiring managers report looking at an applicant"s facebook. 60% have rejected a candidate because of something they say on social network. Group size- 150 friends has been the optimum group size. Testing the assumption of people only posting the positive or good qualities. Saved facebook profiles of the participants so they wouldn"t go back and alter their profiles. Significant effect of actual personality on facebook impressions. Accuracy was strongest for extroversion and openness, lowest for neuroticism. Efficient medium for expressing and communicating real personality . Health psychology- investigation of how psychological, behavioral, social, and cultural factors are involved in physical health and illness, in addition to biological causes. Aims to prevent illness and disease, and promote health and recovery. Health- a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. (who, 1948)
