COMM 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Self Esteem (Song), Social Penetration Theory

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1500
• Professor: Caban

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Self awareness tapping into one"s self, ability to step outside yourself and reflect on thoughts feelings and behavior. It is a whole, an entire picture of how you see yourself b: your definition of you. Looking glass self: based on what people tell you about yourself. 1: people tell you things continually, then you believe it is part of you. Self-concept clarity: clear sense of self: how we define ourselves. Harder to do when others tell us who we are. d. Guides behavior (self fulfilling prophecies): conditioning people based off how you see them. You belong to this group so you should ____ ii: ex: your a cheerleader, you should be happier i. Eventually the person becomes more perky/happy: ex: your african american, you should like rap , would start to listen to rap. 2: self esteem, overall positive or negative value that we assign ourselves i.