Psyc 360 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture I Ethics Outline of Current Lecture II The Self A Self Awareness Theory B Effects of Self Awareness Current Lecture Shame social emotion Awareness of how short we fall of our potential is unique to humans Self Awareness thinking about yourself ability to understand we are a distinct person dolphins and chimpanzees also do this Babies are not born with self awareness are able to recognize they are a being at about 18 month old Levels of Self Awareness more self aware while public speaking because all eyes are on us and we are social animals when other people are watching us and we want to know what they see when they see us Self awareness is a state that varies sometimes we are high on it and other times low Self Awareness Effects If Yes Positive Emotions Pride Self Awareness Am I being who I want to be If No Negative Emotions Shame Guilt Desire to avoid negative emotions If we are feeling negative emotions we take steps to reduce them These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Avoid Negative Emotions If we justify our actions we can reduce negative emotions Avoid self awareness Change behavior Forget standards Lower Standards How can people avoid self awareness Study of men who take mass survey at the beginning of a semester The men had egalitarian attitudes non sexist Asks the men to read some statements out loud Statements are recorded Statements like The woman s place is at home Women should obey their husbands the guys don t want to read them but do read them out loud anyway Then they are asked to walk down the hall and wait on a graduate student to come The researchers recorded what side of the room the men sat on as they waited 70 of the men sat on the right side of the room There was a mirror on that wall so 70 of sat with their back to the mirror Avoid their self by sitting with back to mirror Control condition have egalitarian men read statements that are innocuous neutral and walk down the hall and sit in the room Determined by random assignment Sexist men did the same and only 30 avoided the mirror 50 70 30 avoided mirror Innocuous Sexist Sexist statement read by sexist man Statements We know that the 20 difference is due to having read sexist statements because of random assignment and the statements read was the only difference A person s morals drive their emotional consequences and behavior Another study done students read school s honor code and then were given math problems to do They had means to cheat and incentive to cheat Then were asked to remember the code of honor Students who were given opportunity to cheat did not remember the honor code as well compared to the students who weren t given means to cheat They forgot their standards