The Self: How do we live with ourselves?Our impressions of other peopleSelf Awareness: Thinking about yourselfSelf is very socialPay attention to yourself when other people are paying attention to usBenefit from the attentionStarts inside your head and then changes your behaviorYou know yourselfDoes self awareness make us better people??Halloween  trick or treat  one house all the lights are off – bad house, house all decorated with lights – good house, third house all the lights are off except the one at the door with bowl full of candy and a note that says only take oneDid study like the third house and measured how much candy the kids took even with the note  in the study only 34% of the kids cheatedUsed a mirror with random assignment (flipped coin and heads mirror, tails no mirror – reach down to take the candy and see a mirror of yourselfDecreased to 12%Halloween story tells usSelf awareness can lead us to behave betterDoes it always?Self-Awareness TheorySelf-Awareness  “Being who I want to be?” 1. Am I being who I want to be100% Honest  0% Goal Yes, Positive emotion (affect) – feel proud, satisfied, delighted (Your living up to your goal) No, Negative emotions (affect) – thinking I’m about to cheat, I’m not a cheater, I want to do what’s right Do better (change your behavior) Lower the barBar? What Bar?Students given opportunity to cheatRead academic honor codeComplete series of Math ProblemsSolve up to 20 math problemsEach $0.50 eachGrade your own workGrabbed their own payment and threw paper away in trashcanMemory of honor code“Which of the following constitutes academic misconduct?”“Who is hurt by academic misconduct?”Cheaters got less correct on this test 2.3 / non-cheaters 3.7Correlational studyAlso read about what you need to do to get a drivers licenseDrivers license questions Honest got 3.1, non cheaters got 3.2 (selective amnesia) Avoid self-awarenessMirror Mirror on the wall studyEgalitarian man – men and women should have equal rightsFirst task – recite statements, into microphone, tape recordedA women’s place is in the homeWives should submit to their husband’s authoritySecond task – room with chairs on opposite walls and placed exactly the sameMeasured where they sat in the roomOnly 20% of these guys sat on the right side of the room (mirror on the left side of the roomControl group – said random statements instead of sexistEgalitarian Control group sat 50/50Egalitarian Man that made sexist statements– 25.2Sexist Men normal statements – 50Sexist men sexist statements – 72Avoid it – getting drunk, over eating (ice cream)Jackie BrownCheaters forgot details of an honor code they’d just readWhen we feel bad, we want to feel betterWhat best describes social influence?The effect that society has on individualsWhich of the following questions is a social psychologist most likely going to askAre people more likely to help someone in need when other potential helpers are aroundWhich of the following is an instance of naïve realism that is most likely to be of interest to social psychologistFor which public health and safety problems have messages designed to scare people into engaging in safer behavior largely been ineffective>Unsafe sexHow does social psychology differ from philosophy?Philosophers are more likely to rely more heavily on logicWhich of the following is considered an acceptable source of research hypotheses?All of the aboveWhich of the following studies would provide the strongest evidence for its conclusion?Finding: In a sample of 800 adults drawn randomly from the American population, 680 respondents (85%) agreed with the statement “I find it annoying that ‘Tumblr” doesn’t have an “e” Conclusion: Length of commute influences job satisfactionThirty students come into the laboratory with several Mac computers along one wall and several Dell computers along the other wall. They are invited to choose any of the computers and write a haiku. Those who chose Macs spend significantly longer (2.8 min) on the task. Later a panel of haiku experts rated the haiku written by those who had used Macs to be much more creative. What can we conclude from these findings?There was a correlation between choosing to use a Mac and the creativity of student’s haikuAccording to lecture, can it be ethically acceptable to conduct a study in which research participants are lied to by the experimenter, treated badly by a confederate, and experience emotional distress?YesWhy do we have schema’sAll of the above: they help organize the world, they help “fill in the blanks” in our understanding of the world, they help make sense of confusing situationsThe text describes a study that investigated the relationship between elementary school teachers’ expectations for their students’ performances and the students’ subsequent performance. What statement provides the best explanation for the results of the experimentTeachers gave more attention to students for whom they had high expectationsWhich research finding below provides evidence for the availability heuristic?People were asked to remember either 6 or 12 times when they had been assertive. Those asked to remember 6 assertive acts subsequently reported that they were more assertive people.Which of the following is the best example of an external attributionThe receiver dropped the ball because the linebacker was so tall that the receiver never saw the ballAccording to research, how effectively do people communicate emotions in various forms of communicationThey communicate emotions less effectively in email than over the phone & they communicate emotions less effectively in email than in personWhich statement best describes our understanding of cultural differences in the types of attributions people makeNorth Americans are less likely than Asians to make internal attributionsHindsight bias – Little slips of paper with research sayings “opposites attract”Northwestern football fans before the game, and after the gameTranslate into symbols “x is correlated with y”X  yTranslate into words “x  y”x influences yA variety of research has made it clear that there is a strong relationship between attending college and openness to experience: those who have attended some amount of college are more open to new experiences. One possible explanation for this relationship is that attending college influences