PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Avoidance Coping, Oxytocin Receptor, Fundamental Attribution Error
11 Mar 2013
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The mentally healthy person: stability, rationality, high self-esteem, adaptive, copes well with stress and adversity, follows social norms, realistic about ourselves, close contact with reality/accurate perceptions of reality . Criteria for mental health: happiness, caring for others, engaging in productive and creative work. Task: attribute failure to task (vs. self) more self more self esteem and less negative mood. Caring for others: indirect evidence: illusions may facilitate ability to care for/about others via mood, inducing positive (vs. Negative or neutral) mood increases: helping, initiate conversations, express liking. Creative & productive work: illusions and intellectual functioning, no direct evidence but possibly via positive effect, motivation, persistence and performance work harder, longer, positive self, control, optimism, self-fulfilling prophecy work harder, longer work harder, longer. Origins of the positive illusory self: oxtr gene related to psychological resources (optimism, mastery and self es- teem, ps who had a specific polymorphism of this gene had more psychological re- sources.
