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Theory of mind

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The ability to represent the beliefs and desires of other people, especially when their thoughts and beliefs differ from your own

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Brain regions for ToM

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right temporal-parietal junction and mirror neurons

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Right temporal-parietal junction (rTPJ)

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selectively active when we think about the thoughts of others or when reading stories about people’s thoughts but NOT about their sensations

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Mirror neurons

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active when either we ourselves are performing an action or somebody else is doing the same action

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Attribution

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An inference about the cause of a person’s behavior, either (a) disposition/personality or (b) situation they are in, by attending to 3 types of information: consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus

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Consistency, Distinctiveness, and Consensus

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High consistency=disposition and low consistency=situation; high distinctiveness=situation and low distinctiveness=disposition; high consensus=situation and low consensus=disposition

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Fundamental attribution error

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General tendency for people to make dispositional (internal) attributions of others, even when there are readily available situational (external) factors; stronger in individualistic cultures

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Actor-observer effect

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General tendency for people to make situational attributions of ourselves (even when we make dispositional attributions for others in the same situation); A self-serving bias/attribution

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Affective forecasting errors

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Our estimations of future happiness are not very accurate because we overestimate the influence of some factors (with little relevance) and underestimate the influence of others

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Social norms

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Culturally-specific expectations of appropriate vs. inappropriate behavior of which everybody in the culture is supposed to act in accordance with

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Persuasion

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Process of deliberately attempting to change a person’s attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors towards a person, thing, idea etc.

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Beliefs

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enduring knowledge about an object, person, or event; Can be true or false given the state of the world

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Attitudes

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semi-enduring feelings that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events; Can be positive, neutral, or negative

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Behaviors

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consequences of our beliefs and attitudes (most often combined)

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Implicit attitude

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automatically activated associations often learned through repeated exposure to a person, place, thing, or issue; harder to change

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Explicit attitude

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those we explicitly report that we feel or believe about a person, place, thing, or issue

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3 components that successful persuasion requires

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Message source, message content, message target

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Source monitoring

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Process of attempting to remember where and when we learned a particular message or fact

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Source amnesia

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we reevaluate the message on our own without considering whether the source was good or bad

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`Cognitive dissonance

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Highly negative feeling we experience when our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors conflict and contradict with each other

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Post-decision dissonance

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when we have to forgo an option that we have a positive attitude toward

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Effort justification

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people sometimes develop positive attitudes toward activities that are objectively aversive or require a lot of effort

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Ways to reduce cognitive dissonance

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discount belief/attitude, change belief/attitude, change future behaviors

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Discount belief/attitude

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deciding that some set of beliefs/attitudes is actually not something you care about anymore

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Change belief/attitude
deciding to drop one of your conflicting beliefs/attitudes in order to remove the conflict
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Change future behavior
making a promise to yourself not to act in inconsistent ways in the future
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Elaboration likelihood model
Model of persuasion (i.e. kind of content) that argues that people can be influenced through of of two routes: systematic and heuristic
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Systematic (central) route to persuasion
Uses content full of reason, logic, sound and straightforward arguments, effortful and time-consuming, primarily targets beliefs, target must have motivation to listen and ability to think about content
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Heuristic (peripheral) route to persuasion
Appealing to target’s emotions, habits, or even implicitly, Indirectly exploits associations and social norms we all carry with us, usually targets attitudes and behaviors
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Foot-in-the-door technique
make a small request first and make a bigger one once the person complies
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Door-in-the-face technique
make an impossible large request then make a smaller one when the person declines
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Social proof
pointing out long list of other people who have complied to increase compliance
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Scarcity principle
people tend to place higher value on things that are in short supply
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Implicit priming
Method of persuasion that implicitly brings up an association for a participant who then automatically transfers it to their subsequent behavior/attitude
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Intimidation
Psychological process of (attempting to) change somebody’s behavior through appeals to authority, dominance, threats, or harm to the target itself
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Direct intimidation - Milgram
target knows they are being unwillingly forced into a situation where they have to behave in a way they normally would not
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Indirect intimidation - Zimbardo
sources can rely on creating dissonance that appeals to social schemas or roles in order to manipulate behavior without the target recognizing it as intimidation
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Doubts of authority (experimenter)
Obedience rates drop moderately
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Increased probability of blame (for teacher)
obedience rates drop strongly
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Intimacy between teacher and learner
either emotionally or physically, obedience rates most significantly drop
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Social group
A collection of individuals who interact with one another, share similar goals and a sense of unity
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Ingroup positivity
people feel greater sense of belonging and safety within ingroup
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Outgroup negativity
seeing outgroups as possessing more negative traits, more homogenous, and having a dispositional attribution
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Social facilitation
Situations in which groups of people perform better together than any single individual within the group would perform alone by: combining effort, specialization, passing down knowledge over time
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Diffusion of responsibility
Tendency for individuals in a group to feel diminished responsibility for their actions (stronger the larger the group)
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Social loafing
tendency for people to exert less effort in a group than they would on their own, likely when there is no way to record effort
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Bystander effect
people are less likely to help a victim when others are around (the more people, the lower tendency)
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Group think
Groups reach consensus on a decision not because it is correct or best, but because they have reached consensus
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Group polarization
Tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme or polarizing after discussing it with like-minded people
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Deindividuation
Individuals becomes less aware and concerned about their own values but more with their group’s values (even if it conflicts their own)
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Conformity
Frequent consequence of deindividuation where people have the tendency to do what others do because they belong in the same group
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Informational social influence
kind of conformity in order to behave correctly (desire to be right) or gain an accurate understanding of the world
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Normative social influence
To gain approval from others or avoid disapproval, to fit in
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Social norms
Patterns of behavior, traditions, beliefs, and preferences that are accepted and reinforced by others and influence our behavior
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Stereotype
beliefs about typical behaviors and traits of a certain group or category of people or things
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Prejudice
attitudes about people or things that belong to a certain group or category
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Discrimination
behaviors that are influenced by prejudice towards a certain group or category
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Generalizations
An inference (based on previous experiences) that a certain phenomenon will share properties or traits with the broader category to which it belongs
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Schemas
Impressions or mental representations that organize the associated pieces of information we know about a person
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Transference
tendency to assume same traits between new person we meet and someone we know
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Impression management strategies
self-promotion (competent), ingratiation (likable), exemplification (dedicated), intimidation (dominant), supplication (needy)
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Confirmation bias
Tendency for people to seek out and notice evidence that agrees with their beliefs, desires, and stereotypes
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Positive hypothesis testing
tendency to only seek out evidence that confirms what you believe, rather that evidence that may falsify it
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Distrust of alternatives
tendency to come up with reasons not to believe evidence against your current views even when it’s provided to you
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Implicit prejudice
how stereotypes can affect you without awareness, often leading to overt discrimination
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Stereotype awareness
affecting your own behavior (self-discrimination) even without your awareness
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Implicit associations test (IAT)
Psychological test that measures the degree of implicit and automatic stereotyping
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Implicit bias training
workplace training aimed at helping individuals recognize implicit bias and finding ways to counteract it through policy changes and self-monitoring
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Contact hypothesis
best possible intervention; interacting and cooperating with people from other groups, including shared goal and social support
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Aggression
Any behavior with the intention of physically, socially, or mentally hurting or killing any being who doesn’t want to be harmed
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Allospecific aggression
directed toward members of another species
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Conspecific aggression
directed toward members of one’s own species
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Hostile aggression
intention to physically harm someone that is spontaneous and unplanned
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Instrumental aggression
goal-directed aggressive behavior intended to acquire an object, person, or social status with premeditation (planned, may be physical)
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Relational aggression
intention to hurt someone’s social status and is not physical
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Situational reasons for conspecific aggression
Dominance, eliminate competition, protect resources
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Culture of honor
many cultures have a social norm whereby any insult to one’s honor must be responded to with aggression
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Cooperation
The behavior of two or more individuals who work together for mutual benefit
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Immediate/short-term cooperation
two or more agents work together on the same problem at the same time to increase the chance of success for everyone
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Delayed/long-term cooperation
one agent cooperated without immediate benefit to oneself in order to increase the survival of the group or get a benefit later on
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Tit-for-tat strategy
Conspecifics initially cooperate but retaliate the very moment someone cheats against them and until they correct their behavior
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Outcomes of prisoner's dilemma
Both stay silent (cooperation) = one month in jail each; A stays silent and B confesses and betrays A = B is free while A goes to jail for a year (non-cooperative); Both confess and betray = three months in jail each
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Prosocial behavior
Actions aimed at assisting others towards their goals
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Kin selection
Evolved or adaptive strategy of assisting those who share one’s genes, even at personal cost, as a means of increasing genetic survival
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Norm of reciprocity
People agree to help others who have helped them in the past or might help them in the future

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