Related to the example spiky here psychology says that, from our self focus perspective, we overestimate our conspicuousness and this is called spotlight ethics and it means that we tend to see ourselves at center stage so we intuitively overestimate the extent to which others attention is in us. In one research that was killed over two three, our metric and Canada whiskey explored a spotlight athlete by having any video Cornell University students don't embarrassing Barry Manilow fishes before entering a room with other students, the self conscious t shirt whereas yes that nearly half of your peers would not as a shirt. actually only 23% it was true of our dorky clothes and bad hair is also true of our emotions, our anxiety, irritation, discuss deceit or attraction. Fewer people not as then we presume, keenly aware of our own emotions. We often suffer and illusion of transparency. If we are happy and we know it, then our faces will surely show it and others we presume will not.
Actually we can be more awkward than we realize. We also overestimate the visibility, our social wonders in public mental flips. When we trigger the library alarm or accidentally insult someone, we may be mortified with thoughts such as everyone thinks I'm a jerk, but research shows that when we agonize over others suddenly hardly not as insulin forget. This, both like ethics and the related illusion of transparency are rich to have many examples of the interplay between our sense of self and our social worlds. Let's see some other examples. Social surroundings affect our self awareness.
Namely, we are the only member of our race, gender or nationality in a cruel and We notice how we differ in how others are reacting to our day, a white American feel self consciously white while living in a rural village in netball, and African America feel self consciously American. Well in Africa, suddenly we have is self interest color our social judgment. This means that when problems arise in a close relationship such as marriage, we usually attribute more responsibility to our partners than to ourselves. When things go well at home or work or play. We see ourselves as more responsible. Next one is that self concern motivates our social behavior, which means that in hopes of making a positive impression, we agonize about our appearance, like savy poll efficiency, we also monitor others behavior and expectations and adjust our behavior accordingly.
And last one is that social relationships help we find ourself in our worried relationships we have wearing selves, notice and Anderson in theory in a Chen, we may be one self with mom and other with friends and another with features. How we think of ourselves is a link to the person we are with the moment. And to conclude, as these examples suggest, the traffic between ourselves and others runs both ways. Our ideas, feelings, about ourselves, affect how we respond to others in others, helps shape our sense of self.