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Social Loafing |
a group-produced reduction in individual output on tasks where contributions are pooled |
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Social Facilitation |
a process whereby the presence of others enhances performance on easy tasks but impairs performance on difficult tasks |
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Deindividuation |
the loss of a person's sense of individuality and the reduction of normal constraints against deviant behavior |
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Why does a person join a group? |
-much of what we hope to produce and accomplish can be done only through collective action -humans have innate need to belong to groups -social brain hypothesis : primates' brains evolved bc of their unusually complex social worlds |
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Group polarization |
the exaggeration of initial tendencies in the thinking of group members through group discussion |
