PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Protestant Work Ethic, Collectivism, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Self-enhancement: the motivation to view oneself positively. Self-serving biases: tendencies for people to exaggerate how good they think they are. One of the reasons people have bias views is because they are motivated. There is evidence of cultural variation in positive self-views. performance of someone who is doing even worse than you. Downward social comparison: by comparing your performance with the. Upward social comparison: when we compare our performance with. Discounting: reducing the perceived importance of the domain in which. External attribution: we attribute the cause of our actions to something. Bask in the reflected glory: emphasize our connection to successfully outside ourselves (teacher marking hard or no time to study). performing others and feel better about ourselves by sharing in the warm glow of the other"s success. Asian samples than western ones. successes more memorable because they about these more. Tendencies to show self-serving biases are far less common among east.
