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Social influence
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The effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior
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Social psychology
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The scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people
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Construal
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The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world
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Individual differences
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The aspects of people's personalities that make them different from other people
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Fundamental attribution error
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The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors, and to underestimate the role of situational factors
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Behaviorism
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A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment--that is, how positive and negative events in the environment are associated with specific behaviors
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Gestalt psychology
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A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object
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Self-esteem
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people's evaluations of their own self-worth--that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent
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Social cognition
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How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions
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