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: Received: 6 February 2024 / Approved: 8 February 2024 / Online: 8 February 2024 (07:10:03 CET)
How to cite:
Albarracin, M.; Bouchard-Joly, G.; Sheikhbahaee, Z.; Miller, M.; J. Pitliya, R.; Poirier, P. Feeling Our Place in the World: An Active Inference Account of Self-Esteem. Preprints2024, 2024020472. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0472.v1
Albarracin, M.; Bouchard-Joly, G.; Sheikhbahaee, Z.; Miller, M.; J. Pitliya, R.; Poirier, P. Feeling Our Place in the World: An Active Inference Account of Self-Esteem. Preprints 2024, 2024020472. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0472.v1
Albarracin, M.; Bouchard-Joly, G.; Sheikhbahaee, Z.; Miller, M.; J. Pitliya, R.; Poirier, P. Feeling Our Place in the World: An Active Inference Account of Self-Esteem. Preprints2024, 2024020472. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0472.v1
APA Style
Albarracin, M., Bouchard-Joly, G., Sheikhbahaee, Z., Miller, M., J. Pitliya, R., & Poirier, P. (2024). Feeling Our Place in the World: An Active Inference Account of Self-Esteem. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0472.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Albarracin, M., Riddhi J. Pitliya and Pierre Poirier. 2024 "Feeling Our Place in the World: An Active Inference Account of Self-Esteem" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0472.v1
Abstract
Self-esteem, the evaluation of one's own worth or value, is a critical aspect of psychological well-being and mental health. In this paper, we propose an active inference account of self-esteem, casting it as a sociometer, or an inferential capacity to interpret one's standing within a social group. This approach allows us to explore the interaction between an individual's self-perception and the expectations of their social environment.When there's a mismatch between these perceptions and expectations, the individual needs to adjust their actions or update their self-perception to better align with their current experiences. We also consider this hypothesis in relation to recent research on affective inference, suggesting that self-esteem enables the individual to track and respond to this discrepancy through affective states such as anxiety or positive affect. By acting as an inferential sociometer, self-esteem allows individuals to navigate and adapt to their social environment, ultimately impacting their psychological well-being and mental health.
Keywords
self-esteem; active inference; model; sociometer
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Mathematical and Computational Biology
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