PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Neuroticism, Individualism, Cognitive Dissonance
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The nature of ourselves strongly influences the ways we perceive and interact with our social worlds. We might appear highly similar across experiences in two diverse cultural worlds and vary only in terms of the content of things that we would be thinking about. Twenty-statements test: an experiment wherein participants complete the statement i am twenty times. The most popular kinds of self-descriptions for americans were personal characteristics such as their traits, attitudes and abilities (canadians and british). The statements made by a non-westernized group reflected their social identity such as their roles and memberships (chinese, Interdependent views of self the individual"s identity and distinct from their relationships. Independent view of self: the self can be thought to derive its identity from inner attributes. These reflect the essence of the individual in that they are the basis of. They are viewed as stable across situations and across the lifespan.
