Solutions – 2025/2026
Self Presentation is - ANS✔✔ strategic and oriented around goals
3 Principles of Self Presentation - ANS✔✔ 1) Settings and Roles
2) Values and Preferences
3 Self-Enhancing Presentations
Self Presentation Strategies - ANS✔✔ -Ingratiation
-Power Strategies
-Self Promotion
-Exemplification
Ingratiation - ANS✔✔ Goal: to appear likable
Ingratiator's Dilemma: lack of authenticity
Power Strategies - ANS✔✔ Goal: to appear more or less powerful than the other person
Intimidation (Power Strategies) - ANS✔✔ Goal: to appear powerful and threatening
Risk: alienation of others who will fear you instead of like you
Supplication (Power Strategies) - ANS✔✔ Goal: to appear weak, helpless, dependent on others
Risk: look incompetent or create resentment
Self Promotion - ANS✔✔ Goal: to appear competent, knowledgable, important
, Risk: appear self absorbed or bragging
Self Promotion tactics - ANS✔✔ 1. Make accomplishments known to others
2. Emphasize one area only
3. Self handicapping
4. Avoid humblebrag
5. Emphasize other's role
Self Handicapping - ANS✔✔ appear to be incompetent so performance is better than expected
(hustling)
Exemplification - ANS✔✔ Goal: want to be perceived as having high moral standards,
commitment to a worthy cause, or as a role model for others
Risk: If they fail, run the risk of looking hypocritical
Identification - ANS✔✔ -Indirect Self Presentation Strategy
-Goal: show you are associated with club, group or a particular community
Face - ANS✔✔ a mask that changes depending on the audience and the variety of social
interaction
________ is central to the development of the self-concept - ANS✔✔ Communication
Communication influences development of the self concept through 3 processes: - ANS✔✔ -
Reflected Appraisal
-Social Comparison
-Self Talk