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Leon Festinger

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Cognitive Dissonance, Proximity Theory, Social Psychology, Seeker Cult

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Val Curtis

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Human reactions to disgust, how disgust evolved to combat diseases and infections, behavior changes and why

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Stanley Milgram

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Obedience taught while growing up, obedience through authority

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Steele & Aronson

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Stereotypical threat intellectual test performance, relationship between race and stereotypes, how racial stereotypes impact education

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Elizabeth Loftus

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Phrasing and how sequence of events were remembered, how trauma affects how we see the world, planted false memories

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Henri Tajfel

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Social Identity Theory, sense of self = how they consider themselves to belong to social groups, intergroup relationships, lift your group up by hating on the other one

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Brown & Kulik

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Flashbulb memory, memories from JFK assassination, more emotional = more vivid, certainty is higher but accuracy is not, cognitive approach to behavior

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Thomas Bouchard

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Twins reared apart, strong biological factors in intelligence and interest, nature vs nurture

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Eric Kandel

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Physiological changes in brain during storage and formation of memories, roots of brain disease, cognitive and biological approaches to behavior

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Joseph LeDoux

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Fear and emotional processing, amygdala is vital in fear processing

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Kenneth B. & Mamie Clark

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Doll and coloring test, racial prejudice apparent as early as 5, used in Brown vs. Board of Education

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Tversky & Kanheman

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Prospect theory, human aversion to loss over equivalent gain, lottery experiments, risk vs reward

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Marco Lacoboni

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Human neuron mirror, understand actions of others, Teacup Experiment

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Solomon Asch

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Social conformity, conformity line test, socio-cultural understanding

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Muzafer Sherif

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Social judgment theory, conflict theory, how groups deal with competition, 11 year old boys in the woods

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Albert Bandura

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Social Cognitive Theory, environment/cognition/behavior, Bobo Doll Experiment, socializations