PSY 274 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parachuting, Negative Affectivity, Conscientiousness
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First to offer psychology class in the us. Some say he"s the father of american psychology. See our self as we see other people & things. Social identity = identityfriends + identityparents + etc. We generate ideas on the spot to explain actions. Self appraisals others" actual appraisals (of you) . Knowledge of us linked with knowledge of others different self for different others. Your behavior with friends vs. with parents self-other overlap. Decide who you are by past actions i"m brave because i went skydiving. I"m not shy because i went to many parties. Who i am vs. who i want to be could lead to negative affectivity. The cook asks what he wants on the burger. View of the self in relation to others independent self-construal. Feelin" good about ourselves: self-esteem, self-enhancement, self-serving bias, self-veri cation, self-af rmation, positive illusions, better than average effect, implicit egoism. Does you city affect your self-esteem: perhaps based on personality t.