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| The ability to step outside of yourself and view yourself as a unique person distinct from your surrounding environment; and reflect on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. |
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Your overall perception of who you are. Based on the beliefs, attitudes, and values you have about yourself. Shaped by factors such as gender, family attachments, and culture.
EXAMPLE: Beliefs,"I am an excellent student."
Attitudes,"I am happy with my appearance."
Values,"I think it is wrong to..." |
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| The overall value that we assign to ourselves |
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Observing and assigning meaning to others' behavior and then comparing their behavior against ours.
EXAMPLE: Positive "I am as hardworking and successful as the best employees in this company."
Negative "I wish I could be as open an outgoing as my friends." |
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When our self-concepts are strongly influenced by our beliefs about how others see and evaluate us
EXAMPLE: "People think I am talented, and they like me."
Our emotional response to those beliefs "I feel good/bad about how others see me." |
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| Self-fulfilling prophecies |
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predictions about future interactions that lead us to behave in ways that ensure the interaction unfolds as we predicted.
EXAMPLE: (positive) You see yourself as professionally competent and highly skilled at communicating. This leads you to predict job interview success. During the interview your prediction leads you to communicate in a calm, confident, and impressive fashion, which consequently creates success; the interviewers like and are impressed by you, and their reaction confirms your prophecy.
(negative) You had a friend who thought he was not attractive and whenever he went to clubs, his self-concept would lead him to predict interpersonal failure. He thinks no one will talk to him so he sits at a table alone all night. At the end of the night he says how he knew no one would talk to him.
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The characteristics you want to possess based on your desires. The "perfect you". These include mental, physical, emotional, material, and even spiritual.
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| The person others wish and expect you to be. Stems from expectations of your family, friends, colleagues, and romantic partners as well as cultural norms. |
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| How your self-esteem is determined by how you compare to two mental standards. How you want to be and how others want your to be. |
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1.Gender
2.Family
3.Culture |
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| Individuals are low on both anxiety and avoidance and are comfortable with intimacy and seek close ties with others. |
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| adults are high in anxiety and low in avoidance and they desire closeness but are plagued with fear of rejection. |
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| Close relationships are not important and would rather be self-relient |
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| adult are high in both attachment anxiety and advoidence. They fear rejection and tend to shun relationships, perferring to advoid the pain they believe is an inevitable part of intimacy. |
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| You were likely taught that individual goals are more important than group or societal goals. |
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| You likely were taught the importance of belonging to groups or "collectives" that look after you in exchange for your loyalty. |
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| A public self designed to veil your private self |
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| A public self that you want others to see and know. You actively creat and present face through communication. Creat faces for different moments and relationships such as our face as a parent, college student, co-worker, or homeless-shelter volunteer. |
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| Embarrassment (in relation to faces and masks) |
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| Losing face provokes feelings of shame, humiliation, and sadness. |
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| Social Penetration theory (Onion) |
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| The notion of layers of self that helps explain the development of interpersonal relationships as well as the ways in which we distinguish between casual and close involvements. |
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| Revealing private information about your self to others. |
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