PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Borderline Personality Disorder, Ostracism, Overjustification Effect
15 Apr 2018
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One: barkow proposes that people desire self-esteem to maximize their social status, just as monkeys try to maximize their position in a dominance hierarchy. Two: sociometer model: the idea that a basic function of self-esteem is to indicate to the individual how much he or she is accepted by other people. According to this model, self-esteem is like the gas gauge in your car. The gas gauge is a meter that lets you know when the gas is too low and you need to fill up. Similarly, according to the model, self-esteem is like a sociometer that lets you know if you are currently receiving the social acceptance you need to satisfy a need to belong. Looking at this from a neuroscience perspective, we find evidence that when people are excluded in a situation such as cyberball, they show activation in the anterior cingulate cortex.
