PSYC 023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Psych, Moe Williams, Ingroups And Outgroups
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A measure of yourself compared to those around you. Individualists define themselves in terms of personal traits and give priority to own goals. Collectivists define themselves in terms of relationships with other people. Three sources of evidence: most people have high se, most people engage in self-serving cognitive biases to enhance/maintain se, most people will do whatever it takes to maintain their positive se. Small correlations between se and actual success: how successful you are, is not predictive of your se. Large correlations between se and self-perceived success: instead, it is how successful you perceive yourself to be that is predictive of your. Even larger correlations between se and self-perceived success on se-relevant tasks: high correlation between se and perceived success on a task that is important to you. Encoding and recall biases wonderful and amazing and we ignore the things that will lower our se. More likely to encode the things that we do really well.
