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| Study of how living among others influences thought feelings and behavior. |
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| Phenomenon in which the presence of others improves ones performance. |
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| Phenomenon in which the presence of others causes one to relax ones standards and slack off. |
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| Rules about acceptable behavior imposed by the cultural context in which one lives. |
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| Tendency of people to adjust their behavior to what others are doing or to adhere to the norms of their culture. |
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| Informational social influence |
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| Conformity to the behavior of others because one views them as source of knowledge about what one is supposed to do. |
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| Situation in which the thinking of the group takes over, so much that group members forgo logic or critical analysis in the service of reaching a decision. |
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| A type of conformity in which a person yields to the will of another person. |
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| Influences made about the causes of other peoples behavior. |
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| the tendency to make situational attributions for our failures but dispositional attributions for our successes. |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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| The tendency to explain others' behavior in dispositional rather than situational terms. |
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| Schemas of how people are likely to behave based simply on groups to which they belong. |
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| The tendency to see all members of an out-group as the same. |
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| Tendency to show positive feelings toward people who belong to the same group as we do, and negative feelings toward those in other groups. |
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| A biased attitude toward a group of people or an individual member of a group based on unfair generalizations about what members of that group are like. |
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| Preferential treatment of certain people usually driven by prejudicial attitudes. |
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| An individual's favorable or unfavorable beliefs, feelings, or actions toward an object, idea, or person. |
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| The feeling of discomfort caused by information that is different from a persons conception of himself or herself as a reasonable and sensible person. |
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| The act of attempting to change the opinions, beliefs, or choices of others by explanation or argument. |
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| Violent behavior that is intended to cause psychological or physical harm, or both, to another being. |
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| Action that is beneficial to others. |
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| Phenomenon in which the greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency the less likely any one of them is to help. |
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| Selfless attitudes and behavior toward others. |
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| The evolutionary favoring of genes that prompts individuals to help their relatives or kin. |
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| The act of helping others in the hope they will help us in the future. |
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| The idea that we help others when we understand that the benefits to ourselves are likely to outweigh the costs. |
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| Empathy-altruism hypothesis |
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| The idea that people help others selflessly only when they feel empathy for them. |
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| The ability to share the feelings of others and understand their situations. |
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| The idea that men and women face different problems when they seek out mates, and so they often approach relationships in very different ways. |
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| Triangular theory of love |
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| Sternberg's idea that three components (intimacy, passion, and commitment), in various combinations, can explain all the forms of human love. |
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| An extremist group led by a charismatic, totalitarian leader who uses coercive methods to prevent members from leaving the group. |
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