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| (1) Original meaning: the tendency of people to perform simple or well-learned tasks better when others are present. (2) Current meaning: the strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses in the presence of others. |
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| Two or more people who, for longer than a few moments, interact with and influence one another and perceive on another as "us". |
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| Co-participants working individually on a noncompetitive activity. |
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| Concern for how others are evaluating us. |
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| The tendency for people to exert less effort when they pool their efforts toward a common goal than when they are individually accountable. |
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| People who benefit from the group but give little in return. |
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| Loss of self-awareness and evaluation apprehension; occurs in group situations that foster responsiveness to group norms, good or bad. |
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| Group-produced enhancement of members' preexisting tendencies; a strengthening of the members' average tendency, not a split within the group. |
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| Evaluating one's opinions and abilities by comparing oneself with others. |
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| A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling, or how they are responding. |
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| "The mode of thinking that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive in-group that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action." -Irving Janis (1971) |
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| The process by which certain group members motivate and guide the group. |
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| Leadership that organizes work, sets standards, and focuses on goals. |
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| Leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support. |
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| transformational leadership |
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| Leadership that, enabled by a leader's vision and inspiration, exerts significant influence. |
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