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Understanding The Self Lesson 3 The Self As Cognitive Construct
Understanding The Self Lesson 3 The Self As Cognitive Construct
Reading Science
Fiction Book
self-concept
- is we are
comparing ourselves
to those who are
worse of us.
Upward social comparison
- comparing ourselves with
those who are better off
than us so in downward
comparison we are comparing
ourselves to those who are
worse of us and upward
s o c i a l c o m p a r i s o n wI love
e cmy om p aThey
family. r e are all very important in my
life, and I'm so lucky to have them by my side. They
o u r s e l v e s t o t h o s e wmake
h omyaworld
r e a better place, and they are always
better than us. so willing to help out whenever anything happens.
“social comparison also entails what is
called self-evaluation maintenance
theory which states that we can feel
threatened when someone outperforms
us especially when that person is close
to us”
Adventure and
Horror Games
“in the attempt to increase or
maintain self-esteem some people
become narcissistic a trait
characterized by overly high self-
esteem self-admiration and self-
centeredness centeredness”