Reflection Paper

Reflection Paper

How the papers relate to each other

The first article is by Leary, R. Mark titled as Making Sense of Self-Esteem. The article is related to the proposal of sociometer theory evolving the monitoring of self-esteem system for social acceptance. These self-esteem motive functions are mainly used for the avoidance of social rejection and devaluation. The article highlights the cues which indicate that the individual is not valued as required and accepted by other people. This leads to low self-esteem and motivate such behaviors which pave way for the relational evaluation. The theory has found certain factors in this article ...