What Does Research Suggest About the Relationship Between People's Ratings

question 67

Multiple Choice

What does research suggest about the relationship between people's ratings of their own physical attractiveness compared with how their close friends rate them?

• A)There is no relationship between the two.
• B)They are almost identical.
• C)The two have a weak correlation (around 0.25).
• D)The two have a strong correlation (around 0.75).

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Definitions:

Self-esteem

An individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth, including beliefs about oneself and emotional states.

Self-schema

A cognitive framework comprising beliefs and feelings about oneself that organizes and guides the processing of self-relevant information.

Self-reference

The practice of relating information or situations back to oneself, often used in the study of memory and cognition.