PS270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Affective Forecasting, Impact Bias, Learned Helplessness
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Chapter 2: the self in a social world. Social surroundings shape how we think about ourselves. As individuals in a group of a different culture, race, or sex, we notice how we differ and how others are reacting to our difference. Looking good to others motivates our social behaviour. Concern for self-image drives much of our behaviour, our actions are most often strategic. Self-interest colours our judgements about others and ourselves. We usually attribute more responsibility to others for problems rather than ourselves. Your ideas and feelings about yourself affect how you interpret events, how you recall them, and how you respond to others. Others in turn help shape your sense of self. Our thinking is partly automatic (impulsive, effortless, and without our awareness) and partly controlled (reflective, deliberate, and conscious) Schemas: mental templates that intuitively guide our perceptions and interpretations of our experience. Impact bias: overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events.
