PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes -Social Comparison Theory, Collectivism, Learned Helplessness
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Self-serving biases: tendencies for ppl to exaggerate how good they think they are. ~ makes your performance look bad: compensatory self-enhancement: acknowledging your poor grades in class but compensating it with your excellent clarinet playing skill. ~ recruiting other +ve thoughts abt yourself: discounting: reducing the perceived importance of the domain where you performed poorly. Im not becoming a chemist : external attribution: attributing the cause of our actions to sth outside ourselves, in contrast to internal attribution. ~ eg: prof was impossible to understand : bask in the reflected glory: when we emphasize our connection to successful groups and making ourselves feel better by sharing others" success. There is evidence of cultural variation in +ve self-views even at a young age. ~ european-americans had more +ve statements abt themselves as compared to native or mexican-americans. ~ americans list more successes than failures whereas japanese had little success memories and more failures to list.
