Implications of Impression Management; Terror Managment Theory

Prejudice after Spring break >> Read chapter 5, outlined in Bboard

Implications of Impression Management

• For
• social networking
• F/B started in Harvard!
• politics
• Getting to know you ads
• dirty? (bad mouthing & campaign $$$)
• high motivation
•  fashion
• $$$
• health
• smoking; not intrinsicly pleasant >> acquisition driven by image
• drinking; social lubricant
• tanning; increased risk for melanoma
• condom use; 
• image-based implications of request
• plastic surgery
•  MONIES & HEALTH

Terror Management Theory

• Theory of social motivation
• Human condition
• self-preservation vs. consciousness of death
•  Cultural worldviews buffer against existential terror of death