Social Influence in Social Psychology
According Kassin et al . (2021), “throughout human history, writers, poets, philosophers, and personality theorists have portrayed the self as an enduring aspect of personality, as an invisible inner core that is stable over time and slow to change” (p. 99). They added that recently “social psychologists have focused on change . . . they have discovered that at least part of the self is malleable, molded by life experiences and varying from one situation to the next” (Kassin et al ., 2021, p. 99).
Instructions
Read chapters 1-5 of the textbook. Then, answer the following questions found in the APPLY Your Experience: Self-Presentation, MindTap section of Chapter 3:
Describe an experience when you worked hard to present yourself in a certain way. What identity were you trying to claim when you did that? How did you want others to see you? Who were those others? Do you think you would have acted differently if the “audience” had been one that you had a closer connection with?