PSYC 3430 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Self-Service, Social Contract, Basking In Reflected Glory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3430
• Professor: Peter Papadogiannis

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Need to belong the dispositional tendency to seek out and join with other humans: most people, find protracted periods of social isolation disturbing. Women are ostracized, are more likely to work harder on a subsequent collective task, to regain acceptance by the rest of the group. They are also more likely to blame themselves for their ostracism. Cyberostracism the exclusion of one or more individuals from a technologically mediated group interaction, such as a computer based discussion group. Leary"s sociometer theory suggests that the need to belong may be the primary motivational force at work rather than a striving for positive self regard. An analysis of self esteem proposed by leary, that argues self- esteem is not an index of perceived self-worth, but instead is a psychological monitor of one"s degree of inclusion and exclusion in social groups. Self esteem warns us of possible exclusion. Self esteem indicates the extent to which a person is included in groups.