PSY220H1 Chapter 2: Week 6 Reading Notes
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A coin toss occurs to see who will go first to write a questionnaire about their feelings and experience of university. The person who stays back is given a peek at the first person"s answers. If that person"s response is written negatively they will write their response as negative (same if it were positive). The students denied that having a peek influenced their response in any way. Results: no difference in self-evaluation between first and fourth year students when they didn"t read any article. Telling high self-esteem people positive messages makes them feel better about themselves. Telling low self-esteem people positive messages makes them feel worse about themselves. In western countries, people compliment others more often than in eastern countries. Conservatives tend to be economic individualists (don"t tax me) and moral collectivists. Liberals tend to be economic collectivists (universal health care) and moral individuals (let people choose for themselves).
