PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Psy, Name–Letter Effect, Psych
16 Jul 2020
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Public self-consciousness the tendency to introspect about our inner thoughts and feelings. Self-regulation the tendency to focus on our outer public image. People are motivated to meet either their own standards or the standards held for them by significant others. If you"re privately self-conscious, you listen to an inner voice and try to reduce discrepancies relative to your own standards; if you"re publicly self-conscious, however, you try to match your behavior to socially accepted norms. Ara norenzayan study: religiosity scale, high believers who were primed to think about god but not low believers became more self-aware, as if they were being observed by other people. Mark muraven and roy baumeister (2000) theorized that self-control is a limited inner resource that can temporarily be depleted by usage. All self-control efforts draw from a single common reservoir. Exercising self-control is like flexing a muscle: once used, it becomes fatigued and loses strength, making it more difficult to re-exert self- control.
