Comparing Ourselves to Others

<p>Predicting how we would feel in response to future events</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Overestimating the strength and duration of responses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creating convincing explanations for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People feel good for unknown reasons</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory that people gain insight into themselves by watching their own behaviors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When intrinsic motivation for an activity decreases when rewarded</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To evaluate one's own abilities and opinions by comparing oneself to others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It makes one rate themselves worse</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Facial feedback hypothesis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Those frowning felt more angry, even though they said mood was not impacted by sun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Waterloo students spontaneously compare themselves to those less successful when wanting to feel better about themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because they are inherently social</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collectivist cultures are more likely to list group identities, while individualistic cultures are more likely to list traits and goals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Self-esteem is a consequence of success in life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>African Americans</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To inform self-concept and personal history</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Group 1 was injected with epinephrine and told what the drug would do, while Group 2 was injected with epinephrine but not told about the effects</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>European American participants chose the common color pen, while East Asian participants chose the unique color pen</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Self-medicate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of controlling thoughts, feelings, or behavior to achieve a personal or social goal</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individualists</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to believe that others are paying more attention to them than they actually are</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ingratiation and self-promotion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conceited</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A test to measure self-awareness</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Overestimating the extent to which one's actions and appearance are noticed by others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Controlling thoughts, feelings, or behavior to achieve a personal or social goal</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Humans, great apes, dolphins, and elephants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sum total of an individual's beliefs about personal attributes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Predicting how we would feel in response to future events</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thinking about ourselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Overestimating the strength and duration of our emotional responses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People are not aware of the impact of background music on their mood</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Waterloo students engage in more social comparisons than other students</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To gain insight into our own behaviors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Changes in facial expression</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When intrinsic motivation diminishes for activities that are rewarded</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Kids who were told they would receive a gold star colored less</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People evaluate their own abilities and opinions by comparing themselves to others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Passive scrolling on social media is associated with feeling worse about oneself</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Waterloo students spontaneously compare themselves to those less successful when wanting to feel better about themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Autobiographical memory is a memory of personal history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It refers to remembering the things at the end of a list.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collectivist cultures prioritize the importance of the interdependent self, while individualistic cultures prioritize the importance of the independent self.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>European American participants chose the unique color pen more often than East Asian participants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trait elements of self-esteem are more stable over a lifetime, while state elements fluctuate in response to feedback.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To explain why people seek social approval from others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Happiness, healthiness, productivity, and success.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fix what we are feeling bad about</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Self-Regulation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A difficult process</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individualists</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that one's actions and appearance are noticed by others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Strategic self-presentation and self-verification</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It takes cognitive energy to pretend to be someone we're not</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individualists tend to have higher self-esteem than collectivists</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An experiment involving candy and mirrors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which people control their thoughts, feelings, or behavior in order to achieve a personal or social goal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to believe that the social spotlight shines more brightly on them than it really does.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Strategies that people use to shape what others think of them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ingratiation (getting along with others) and self-promotion (getting ahead of others).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to overestimate the extent to which their actions and appearance are noticed by others.</p> Signup and view all the answers