PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Upper Middle Class, Learned Helplessness, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Evidence of self-enhancement: look at measures of self esteem, positivity of your overall evaluation of yourself, look at measure of self serving bias. Tendency for people to exaggerate how good they think they are. People will always sustain unrealistic positive self-assessments because they rarely encounter concrete info in certain domains like creativity or loyalty. People are accurate about their personal standing when they encounter incontrovertible evidence: without this type of information people interpret the evidence in a favorable light. How do people keep a positive self view when their experiences aren"t providing them with much to feel positive about. Downward social comparison: compare performance with somebody doing worse than you, creates favorable comparison. Upward social comparison: compare performance with someone doing better, might make you look worse. Compensatory self enhancement: focus on how good you are at something unrelated to your setback by recruiting other kinds of positive thoughts about yourself.
