Quotes About Sociometer

But the fact is that we care a lot about what others think of us. The only people known to have no sociometer are psychopaths.

Millon et al. 1998. Psychopaths often care what others think, but only as part of a plan to manipulate or exploit others. They don't have emotions such as shame and guilt that make it painful for them when others see through their lies and come to hate them. They don't have an automatic unconscious sociometer.

la verdad es que nos preocupamos mucho por lo que otros piensan de nosotros. Las únicas personas que se sabe que no tienen un sociómetro son los psicópatas.

Leary suggested that self-esteem is more like an internal gauge, a "sociometer" that continuously measures your value as a relationship partner.