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| the scientific study of how we feel about, think about, and behave toward the other people around us, and how those people influence our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. |
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| the people with who we are interacting. |
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| the part of human thinking that helps us understand and predict the behavior of ourselves and others. |
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| our enduring evaluation of people or things. |
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| The accepted beliefs about what we do or what we should do in particular social situations. |
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| the tendency to attribute personality characteristics to people on the basis of their external appearance or their social group memberships. |
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| the tendency to dislike people because of their appearance or group memberships. |
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| negative behaviors toward others based on prejudice. |
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| A situation that occurs when our expectations about the personality characteristics of others lead us to behave toward those others in ways that make those beliefs come true. |
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| the positive emotions that we experiences as a result of our group memberships. |
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| Long-term intimate and romantic relationships -- for example, a marriage. |
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| The tendency to prefer stimuli (including but not limited to people) that we have seen more frequently. |
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| the process of trying to determine the causes of people's behavior, with the goal of learning about their personalities. |
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| Fundamental attribution error (or correspondence bias) |
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| The common tendency to overestimate the role of person factors and overlook the impact on social situations in judging others. |
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| Our relatively enduring evalutations of people and things. |
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| the tendency to regulate behavior to meet the demands of social situations. |
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| using our behavior to help us determine our own thoughts and feelings. |
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| The discomfort we experience when we choose to behave in ways that we see as inappropriate, and which leads our behavior to change our attitudes. |
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| any behavior that is designed to increase another person's welfare, and particularly those actions that do not seem to provide a direct reward to the person who performs them. |
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| the principle that, if we help other people now, those other will return the favor should we need their help in the future. |
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| diffusion of responsbility |
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| the assumption that others will take action and therefore we do not take action ourselves. |
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| Behavior intended to harm another indi |
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| The idea that observing or engaging in less harmful aggressive actions will reduce the tendency to agree later in a more harmful way. |
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| the tendency over time to show weaker emotional responses to emotional stimuli |
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| a social norm that condones and even encourages responding to insults with aggression. |
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| a change in beliefs or behavior that occurs as the result of the presence of the other people around us. |
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| conformity toward those with authority. |
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| conformity in which a smaller number of individuals is able to influence the opinions or behaviors of the larger group. |
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| a strong emotional reaction that leads people to resist conformity |
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| the tendency to perform tasks better or faster in the presence of others |
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| the tendency to perform tasks more poorly or more slowly in the presence of others. |
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| a group process loss that occurs when people do not work as hard in a group as they do when they are working alone. |
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| an outcome that occurs when a group, as a result of a flawed group process and strong conformity pressures, makes a very poor decision. |
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| illusion of group productivity. |
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| the tendency to overvalue the productivity of group in comparison to individual performance |
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| illusion of group productivity |
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| the tendency to overvalue the productivity of group in comparison to individual performance. |
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