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| The sum total of an individual's beliefs about his or her own personal attributes |
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| A belief people hold about themselves that guides the processing of self-relevant information |
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| The process of predicting how one would feel in response to future |
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| The theory that when internal cues are difficult to interpret, people gain self-insight by observing their own behavior |
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| Facial feedback hypothesis |
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| The hypothesis that changes in facial expression can lead to corresponding changes in emotion |
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| The tendency for intrinsic motivation to diminish for activities that have because associated with reward or other extrinsic factors |
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| The theory that people evaluate their own abilities and opinions by comparing themselves to others |
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| Two-factor theory of emotion |
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| The theory that the experience of emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and a cognitive interpretation of that arousal |
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| An Eastern system of though that accepts the coexistence of contradictory characteristics within a single person |
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| An affective component of the self, consisting of a person's positive and negative self-evaluations |
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| The theory that humans cope with the fear of their own death by constructing world views that help to preserve their self-esteem |
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| The theory that self-focused attention leads people to notice self-discrepancies, thereby motivating either an escape from self-awareness or a change in behavior |
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| private self-consciousness |
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| A personality characteristic of individuals who are introspective, often attending to their own inner states |
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| public self-consciousness |
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| A personality characteristic of individuals who focus on themselves as social objects, as seen by others. |
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| A nonconscious form of self-enhancement |
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| Behaviors designed to sabotage one's own performance in order to provide a subsequent excuse for failure |
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| To increase self-esteem by associating with other who are successful |
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| Downward social comparison |
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| The defensive tendency to compare ourselves with others who are worse off than we are |
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| Strategies people use to shape what others think of them |
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| The tendency to change behavior in response to the self-presentation concerns of the situation. |
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