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Spotlight effect
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The belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and behavior than they really are.
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Illusion of transparency
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The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others..
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Self concept
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A person's answers to the question "who am i?"
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Self-reference effect
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The tendency to process efficiently and remember well information related to oneself.
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Possible selves
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Images of what we dream of or dread becoming in the future
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Social comparison
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Evaluating one's abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others.
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Individualism
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The concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes .
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Collectivism
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Giving priority to the goals of one's groups (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly.
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Inderdependent self
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Construing one's identity in relation to others.
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Confederate
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An accomplice of the experimenter
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Impact bias
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Overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events.
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Immune neglect
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The human tendency to neglect the speed and the strength of the "psychological immune system," which enables recovery after bad things happen.
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Dual attitudes
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Differing implicit and explicit attitudes toward the same object. Verbalized explicit attitudes may change with education and persuasion;
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Self-esteem
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A person's overall self evaluation or sense of self-worth.
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Self-effiicacy
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A sense that one is competent and effective distinguished from self-esteem, one's sense of self-worth.
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