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Social psycology
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the study of how people think about influence and relate to other people
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stereotype
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a generalization about a group characteristics that dosent consider any variation from one individual to another
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attribution theory
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the view that people are motivated to discover the under lying causes of behavior as a part of their effort to make sense of the behavior
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fundamental attribution error
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observers over estimation of the importance of internal traits and under estimation of the importance of external situation when explanation of another behavior
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false consensus effect
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observers over estimation of the degree to which everybody else thinks or acts the way they do.
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positive illusions
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favorable views of self that are not necessarily rooted in reality
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self-serving bias
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the tendency to take credit for ones own success and to deny responsibilities for ones own failures
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stereotype threat
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an individual fast acting self fulling fear of being judges based on a negative stereotype about his/her group
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Social comparison
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the process by which individual evaluate their thoughts feelings behavior and abilities in relation to others
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attitudes
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individual opinions and beliefs about people objects and ideas how you feel about the world
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cognitive dissonance
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an individual's psychological discomfort caused by 2 inconsistent thoughts
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altruism
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unselfish interest in helping another person
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bystander effect
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tendency to observe a emergency and not so anything about it
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aggression
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Social behavior whose object to harm someone physically or verbally
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conformity
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change in a person's behavior to coincide more closely with a group standard
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normative social influence
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influence other people have on us because we want to be liked
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Deindividuation
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reduction in personal identity and erosion of sense of personal responsibility when one is part of a group
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Social contagion
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imitative behavior involving the spread of behavior emotions and ideas
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Social facilitation
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improvement in an individual's performance due to presence of others
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Social loafing
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each persons tendency to exert less effort in a group because of reduced account ability for individual effort
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risky shift
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tendency of a group decision to be riskier than the average decision made by the individual group member
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group polarization
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the solidfication and further strengthing of a individual position as a consequence of a group discussion or interaction.
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group think
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the impaired group decision making that occurs when making the right decision is less important than maintaining group harmony
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Social identity
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the way individual define themselves in terms of their group membership.
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ethnocentrism
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tendency to favor ones own ethnic group over other groups
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prejudice
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an unjustified negative or harmful attitude towards and individual based on the individual membership in a group
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sexual harassment
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unwelcome behavior or conduct of a sexual nature that offends humanities or intimidates another person
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mere exposure
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the phenomenon that the more individuals encounter someone or something the more probable it is that they will start liking the person or thing even if they do not realize they seen it before
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romantic love
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love with strong components of sexuality and infatuation often of predominantly on really part of a love relationship also called passionate love
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affectionate love
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love that occurs when a individual has a deep caring affection for another person and desire to have that person near also called companionate love.
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