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| The tendency to seek and attend to information that conforms to an existing self-concept. |
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| The socially approved identity that a communicator tries to present. |
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| The communication strategies people use to influence how others view them. |
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| The person we believe ourselves to be in moments of candor. It may be identical with or different from the presenting and ideal self. |
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| A relatively consistent set of traits exhibited by a person across a variety of situations. |
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| The image a person presents to others. It may be identical with or different from the perceived and ideal self. |
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| Groups against which we compare ourselves, thereby influencing our self-concept and self-esteem. |
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| The theory that a person's self-concept mirrors the way the person believes others regard him/her. |
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| The relatively stable set of perceptions each individual holds of himself or herself. |
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| The part of the self-concept that involves an individual's evaluations of his or her self-worth. |
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| An expectation of an event, followed by behaviors based on that expectation, that makes the outcome more likely to occur than would have been the case otherwise. |
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| People whose opinion is important enough to affect one's self concept strongly. |
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| Evaluation of oneself in terms of or by comparison to others. |
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