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The Self in a social world

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Spotlight effect   Belief people are always paying attention to you when they really aren't  
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Illusion of transparency   Illusion that our emotions seek out really easily, but really they dont.  
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Self-concept   Who am I?  
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Self-Schema   Beliefs about self that organize and guide us  
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Self-reference effect   We remember information regarding us the best  
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Possible selves   We can imagine who we want to be and don't want to be.  
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Social comparison   Evaluationing ourselves to other people  
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Individualism   Concept of giving priority to our goals rather that others. Personal attributes are more important that groups.  
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Collectivism   Giving priority to groups instead of ourselves. Family is an example of this.  
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Interdependent self   Construing one's identity in relation to others.  
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Confederate   A person who helps an experimenter out with his research projects.  
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Impact bias   Overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events.  
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Immune neglect   The human tendency to neglect the speed of psychological immune system, which enables emotional recovery after bad thigns happen.  
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Dual attitudes   Automatic attitudes and consciously controlled attitudes that occur. We can hate something at first but than change our minds and love it.  
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Self-esteem   A person's overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth.  
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Self-efficacy   A sense that one is competative and effective. Having high self-efficacy could lead to more persistance, less anxiety, and lower depression.  
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Locus of control   The extent to which people perceive outcomes as internally controllable by their own efforts or controlled by outside factors.  
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Learned helplessness   From repeating a making constant mistakes people can get to a mindset of feelign totally helpless and lost.  
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Self-serving bias   Tendency to perceive oneself favorably  
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Self-Serving attributions   Good things we caused, bad things happened because of other people. Duh! lol.  
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Unrealistic optimism   Being to optimistic can lead people to overestimate things. Such as I won't get hurt in a car accident if I don't wear my seatbelt, it won't happen to me.  
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Defensive pessimism   Harnessing anxiety to motivate effective action by anticipating problems.  
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False consensus effect   Tendency to think one's undesirable actions are common occurances when really they are not.  
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False uniqueness   Tendency to underestimate how common other people are just as good as you with many things!  
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Group serving bias   Explaining away outgroup members positive behaviors aslo attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions. Thinking your group is better than others. If they aren't you blame your group for it not yourself.  
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Self-handicapping   Protecting yourself by creating behaviors to blame in the future.  
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Self-presentation   Expressing yourself in ways to are favorable and correspond to your own ideas. Presenting a desired image of ourselves.  
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Self-monitering   Tuning in to the way you present yourself and changing performance based on desired impression. Think social chameleon "Change to fit situation."  
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