PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Impression Management, Ingratiation, Content Analysis
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Twenty statements test: i am . (20 answers to who are you?: median of 17 responses, first attributes people listed defined themselves in terms of social groups or categories to which they belonged. Student, girl, husband, pre-med, from chicago later got into idiosyncratic trait terms like happy, bored, good wife. Members of religious minorities were faster to identify themselves with a religion as part of their self concept than religious majorities or ppl without a religious affiliation. Our self concepts are defined by the social world: how we are similar to others and how we are unique compared to others something we constantly do. 20 answers reflect your self-concept: the set of ideas and inferences that you hold about yourself including your traits, social roles, schemas and relationships. We are hardly unbiased observers so it"s harder to know what the self is. We take center stage in our own lives.
