The Relative Self
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Working self concept | our idea of ourselves changes according to the situation and the people we are surrounded by |
| Rosenberg scale | measures self esteem |
| Implicit self esteem | people with this have greater name-letter effects, bigger signatures |
| Lockwood and Kunda | after reading about a successful accounting students, first years had higher self esteem and fourth years had lower self esteem (aspirational versus threatening) |
| Self enhancement | maintaining self esteem through positive illusions such as seeing yourself more positively than others, thinking you have more control and seeing future very positively |
| Fein and Spencer | negative feedback on an intelligence test led to gay stereotyping from an ambiguous story |
| Category priming | leads to assimilating traits (e.g. doing worse on a test thinking of supermodels) |
| Exemplar priming | leads to contrasting traits e.g. doing worse from thinking of Einstein) |
| Social identity | aspects of self concept that derive from knowledge and feelings about shared group membership |
| McGuire et al | girls in a male majority family mentioned their gender more, rarity of category in the group an important part of self concept |
| Basking in reflected glory | when good things happen to the group they happen to us |
| Black sheep effect | ingroup members who deviate from norms receive extreme judgement compared to outgroup members (defection is a threat to shared reality, group satisfies epistemic needs: obtaining accurate knowledge of the world) |
| Outgroup homogeneity effect | seeing outgroup as 'all the same' |
| Levine et al | young christians association members reacted worst to a person leaving to join another similar group as this reflects badly on them (rather than moving towns) |
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