Why Do Our Self-Perception Irrational in Perceiving Ourselves?
How do we perceive ourselves? Are we attractive? Capable? Consistent ? Responsible ? Actually, most people seem to have positive views of themselves. In reality, perceiving ourselves is one of the important things to cognize our attitudes through observing our behavior. This essay aims to point out how to observe our positive self perception and prove the statement that we are not rational in perceiving ourselves through different behaviours such as attractiveness, self-serving biases, group polarization, consistency and perceptions of responsibility. Moreover, there are some instances explaining our consistency and self-serving biases underlying what we do without awareness.
Self-presentation is the behavior that people make themselves appear impressive and means that there is no one true self (Schlenker & Bonomer, 1971).People only show position to adapt a particular audience a positive image such as responsible, attractive and many other positive traits. (Harvey, Schwieger, Olson, 1982). This means our self-perception shows positively with attractivness, abilities, consistency and etc.
Firstly, concerning positive evaluations of one's attractiveness. Evaluations of one's own attractiveness being increasing though less strongly over time. (Cheuk, 2012) For example, people 's attractiveness being increasing acutely when he is young which may be the most attractive moment of his life. Although, his attractiveness being increasing though less strongly over time, Being to 50 years old, he still regards himself as 30 years old. Therefore, no matter being 50 years old or 70 years old, people are under impression that their attractiveness are with same to those 30 years old. It shows that the positive self-perceptions are expressed.
Secondly, ability is an individual's potential for performance, or the possibility of the individual being trained up to a specified level of ability. (Dictionary of Psychology) People seem to have some behavior such as
Self-presentation is the behavior that people make themselves appear impressive and means that there is no one true self (Schlenker & Bonomer, 1971).People only show position to adapt a particular audience a positive image such as responsible, attractive and many other positive traits. (Harvey, Schwieger, Olson, 1982). This means our self-perception shows positively with attractivness, abilities, consistency and etc.
Firstly, concerning positive evaluations of one's attractiveness. Evaluations of one's own attractiveness being increasing though less strongly over time. (Cheuk, 2012) For example, people 's attractiveness being increasing acutely when he is young which may be the most attractive moment of his life. Although, his attractiveness being increasing though less strongly over time, Being to 50 years old, he still regards himself as 30 years old. Therefore, no matter being 50 years old or 70 years old, people are under impression that their attractiveness are with same to those 30 years old. It shows that the positive self-perceptions are expressed.
Secondly, ability is an individual's potential for performance, or the possibility of the individual being trained up to a specified level of ability. (Dictionary of Psychology) People seem to have some behavior such as