PSY 0105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Affective Forecasting, Name–Letter Effect, Impact Bias
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Working self concept: larger sense of who you are: activate different parts in different contexts, self schema. Spotlight effect: tendency to overestimate extent to which actions and appearance are noted by others. Self concept: sense of who you are. Multiple selves: shift based on people and environment. Social comparisons: if everyone has the same attributes, that attribute is then average: we base what we think of ourselves on those around us, i. e. (cid:862)fu(cid:374)(cid:374)y(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:449)e are (cid:858)a(cid:271)o(cid:448)e a(cid:448)erage(cid:859) i(cid:374) hu(cid:373)or. Self as an individual: abstract and stable. Self as interdependent: relationship, roles in social context. Situational distinctiveness: change in situation: draw attention to certain features when that feature is different or out of the norm in a certain environment. Exaggerating positive events works as motivation in pursuit of goals because the end goal seems more positive than it ends up really being.
