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The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

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Social psychology

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The theory that we explain someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the persons disposition

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Attribution theory

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The tendency for observers, when analyzing another’s behavior, tell underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the impact of personal disposition

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Fundamental attribution error

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Feelings, often influenced by the lease, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and event

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Attitude

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Attitude change path in which interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thought

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Central route persuasion

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Attitude change path in which people are influenced by incidental cues. Such as the speakers attractiveness

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Peripheral route persuasion

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The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request

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Foot in the door phenomenon

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The set of expectations about a social position, defining how those in the position to have

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Role

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The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with the group standard

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Conformity

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Influence resulting from a personal desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

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Normative social influence

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Influence resulting from one’s willingness to except others opinions about reality

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Informational social influence

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Strong responses on simple Or well learned tasks in the presence of others

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Social facilitation

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The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their effort towards attaining a common goal then when individually accountable

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Social Loafing

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The loss of self awkwardness and self restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

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Deindividuation

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The enhancement of a groups for availing incarnations through discussion with in the group

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Group polarization

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The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in the decision-making group overrides the realistic appraisal of alternatives

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Groupthink

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The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the

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Culture

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And understood rule for excepted and expected behavior.

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Norm

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The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies

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Personal space

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And unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members

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Prejudiced

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Generalized believe about a group of people

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Stereotyped

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Unjustifiable negative behavior towards her group and its members

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Discrimination

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Us – people with whom we share a common identity

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Ingroup

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Them – those perceived as different or apart from our own group

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Outgroup

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The tendency to favor her own group

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In group bias

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The theory that prejudice offers an it outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

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Scapegoat theory

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The tendency to recall faces of one’s own race more accurately than faces of other races also called the cross-race effect

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Other face effect

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The tendency for people to believe The world is just about people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get

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Just world phenomenon

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Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy

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Aggression

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The principle that frustration – the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal – create anger, was going to generate aggression

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Frustration – aggression principle

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The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them

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Mere exposure effect

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And arousal state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship

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Passionate love

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The deep affection an attachment that we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined

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Compassion and love

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A condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it

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Equity

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Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others

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Self disclosure

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Unselfish regard for the welfare of others

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Altruism

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The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if another bystanders are present

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Bystander effect

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The theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs

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Social exchange theory

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And expectation that people will help, not hurt those who have helped them

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Reciprocity theory

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And expectation that people will help those dependent upon them

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Social responsibility norm

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I perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas

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Conflict

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Situation in which the conflicting parties, but each rationally pursuing their self interest, become cock and mutually destructive behavior

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Social trap

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Mutual views often held back in for two people, as when each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side as evil and aggressive

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Mirror image perceptions

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A belief that leads to its own for filament

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Self for filling prophecy

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Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation

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Superordinate goals

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Graduated and reciprocated initiatives in tension reduction

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