COM 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Blind
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Your overall perception of who you are. More multifaceted = more tolerant (to negative life events) Our beliefs about how others see and evaluate us. Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare to others. Reference groups: people against whom we compare our own. When a person"s expectations of an event and their subsequent behavior based on those expectations makes the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been the case. Think something will happen and make it happen. Purposefully revealing private information about the self to others. Suggests that some parts of ourselves are open to self- reflection and sharing, while others remain hidden. Unknown to others the hidden self (h) the unknown self (u)