PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Weighted Arithmetic Mean, Psy, Information Integration
10 Dec 2020
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As objective as we try to be, our social perceptions are sometimes coloured by personal needs, wishes, and preferences. People have a strong need for self-esteem, and this motive can lead us to make favourable, self- serving, and one-sided attributions for our own behaviour. The false-consensus effect described earlier also has a self-serving side to it. It seems that we overestimate the extent to which others think, feel, and behave as we do, in part to reassure ourselves that our own ways are correct, normal, and socially appropriate. According to david dunning, the need for self-esteem can bias our social perceptions in other subtle ways, too even when we don"t realize that the self is implicated. For example, it turns out that students who describe themselves as people-oriented see social skills as necessary for good leadership, while those who are more task-focused see a task orientation as better for leadership.
