47 How important do you feel that “setting” is to your personal impression management? For example, how important is it to you that you have a nice car? A nice house? Explain your answer. Do you think that your own cultural background is a factor in your beliefs about the importance of setting in impression management? Also, how much do you pay attention to these things in your online impression management vs your face-to-face impression management?

The purpose of this assignment is to get you to think about your own impression management tendencies, specifically in the area of SETTING, and why you might have those tendencies (remember that, according to the reading, the “setting” aspect of impression management is about how you arrange the setting around you in order to manage others’ impressions of you–things such as how your home looks, what kind of car you drive, how your office looks if you have one, etc.). After reading about the concept of Impression Management in chapter 3, write a 1 1/2 to 2 pg. (double-spaced) a paper discussing the following: