Social Lecture 2

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Control Theory of Self Regulation (Carver and Scheier, 81/98)

How it should be. Self-awareness (assess whether goals met) if current and ideal self aren't same, work towards ideal. Test-operate to change-test-exit. Private= want best, public= want average

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Self Discrepancy theory (Higgins, 87)

Actual (present), ideal (like to be), ought (should be).How you think you should be might be different from ideal. Motivate to change if fail. Actual-ideal= dejection/disappointment. Actual-ought= agitations/anxiety. Ideal and ought are self guides

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Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 54)

Objective benchmark in similar people- feel better if others don't understand too. For performance downward comparison, sometimes upward, deal with differences by what we CAN do. Look for others who perform worse to yield evaluatively +ve self-con

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Self-Evaluation Maintenance (Tesser, 88)

Upward social comparison (exaggerate target's ability, change target, distance self from target, devalue comparison dimension), Medvec (95) and medalists thing, esteem damaging upward comparison so deny sim to target/remove relationship

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SIT (Tajfel and Turner, 79)

Personal identity- relationships/traits/attributes interlaised, favour in-groups allocate points. Social identity- defines self by group membership, assoc with inter-group behaviour/group norms, categorisation/identification/comparison

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Self-categorisation theory (Turner et al, 87)

Self-cat into group > internalise group attributes > collective self > social ID. BIRGing Murray. If group categorisation too salient, perception of self/others becomes depersonalised

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