Group Psychology

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Spotlight effect

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The belief that others are paying more attention to one's appearance and behavior than they really are

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Illusion of transparency

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The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others

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Self-Concept

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A person's answers to the question "who am I?"

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Self-Schema

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Beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant info

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Self-Reference effect

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the tendency to process efficiently and remember well info related to oneself

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Possible selves

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Images of what we dream of or dread of becoming in the future

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Social comparison

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Evaluating one's abilities and options by comparing oneself to others

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Individualism

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the concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications/independent self; prevails in Western culture

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Collectivism

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Giving priority to the goals of one's groups (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity/interdependent self, prevails in Africans and Asians

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Dual Attitudes

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Differing implicit(automatic) and explicit(consciously controlled attitudes toward the same object). Verbalized explicit attitudes change with education and persuasion; implicit change slowly, with practice that forms new habits

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Self-efficacy

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a sense that one is competent and effective, distinguished from self-esteem, one's sense of self-worth.(chief source is experience or success)

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Locus of control

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the extent to which people perceive outcomes as internally controllable by their own efforts and actions or as externally controlled by chance or outside forces

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Learned helplessness

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the hopelessness or resignation learned when a human perceives no control over repeated bad events

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Self-esteem

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a person's overall self evaluation or self-worth

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Self-serving bias

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the tendency to perceive oneself favorably

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False Consensus effect

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the tendency to overestimate the commonality of one's opinions and one's undesirable or unsuccessful behaviors

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False Uniqueness effect

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the tendency to underestimate the commonality of one's abilities and one's desirable or successful behaviors

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Self-handicapping

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protecting one's self image with behaviors that create a handy excuse for later failure

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Self-presentation

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the act of expressing oneself and behaving in ways designed to create a favorable impression

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Self-monitoring

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being attuned to the way one presents oneself in social situations and adjusting one's performance to create the desired impression