ARTIFACT 5:

This artifact was my favorite because it is not something that I have ever really considered and it really opened my eyes to how I think about these ten people that I included.
From my table, I had 5 people who I considered to be happy and unselfish. On the other hand, I only had one person who I considered to be happy and selfish. The rest of the ten people were split even between being unhappy and selfish or unhappy and unselfish.
I think that I had most people fall in the happy and unselfish category because people are often more happy if they are making others happy. And typically when someone is making someone else happy, then they are a seemingly unselfish person.
I also think that when people are too self focused like some selfish people are, it can cause them to be extremely hard on themselves and cause them to be unhappy.

ARTIFACT 4:

I never really gave much thought to how I would be considered by someone else when I made comments regarding myself and when I made comments regarding others. But, it really does matter. If I went somewhere and was not talking highly of myself and didn’t try to make myself look good, it clearly would not make the other person think highly of me. Same with talking about others, it is important to make an effort to show you are interested in them in some way because it can make them feel better. The image I included is an actual list I made before an interview to help me prepare. It includes self-enhancement and other-enhancement responses.

ARTIFACT 3:

I think it is common knowledge that everybody finds different things attractive in others. However, I have also grown to learn that men typically like certain traits in women as do women like certain traits in men. I learned that men seem to like women who are successful and driven and women they can see as someone they can rely on. I also learned that women seem to focus more on individualistic traits, not so much what the man is bringing to the table, just how he interacts with the woman. I kind of agree with the top traits for both men and women. However, I think my top three traits would be how well they understand me, how much they like being around family, and how driven they are individually.

ARTIFACT 2:

We had to take a survey that involved two different sets of questions, the first set was aimed more towards others and how we feel and the second set was the same questions but aimed towards ourselves. This made us consider whether our attitudes about different things change when we think of it as ourself or for others. I feel the same way about most things when I consider it for myself and for others. It is interesting to really think about it with some controversial topics. Like one of the questions in the survey was whether we agree working out several times a week leads to a healthy person. Then it asked if we worked out several times a week. It made me think why I agree that working out leads to a healthy life but I don’t work out several times a week.
I chose the above image because right now I think there is a lot of difference in attitudes when it comes to recycling plastic and I think the above meme is a good thought to think about.

ARTIFACT 1:

Despite how both of these statements are the exact opposite, I believe that they can both prove to be true in different ways. Both people that I talked to about similarity being attractive had really interesting things to say about it that make sense. And same thing with opposites attract, both people that I discussed that take with also made really good points that also make sense. Both people for each choice were not surprised by the findings, which I would agree with. I think that this all proves to be true because no two people are 100% similar or 100% opposite, and therefore, everybody finds similarity and differences to be attractive because either or that other person can bring a lot to someone else’s life.