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| mental processes and structures used to make sense of, remember, and think about people & interactions |
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| interpersonal expectations |
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| guide communication with other but focus particularly on how we think people will or ought to communicate with us |
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| occurs when one person's expectancies for another affect his/her own behavior, and in turn bring out the other's expected behavior |
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| assessment of the cause of an action or behavior or degree of responsibility |
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| things that determine our attribution of actions: |
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1. level of intention
2. distinctiveness
3. consistency
4. consensus |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| suggests people assume that another's actions were caused by something internal rather than external |
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| tendency to see one's own behaviors as less negative overall than other's actions |
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| unhappy couples "see the worst" |
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| relationship-enhancing bias |
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| happy couples "see the best" |
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| our attempt to determine what others are like & whether we like them |
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| our beliefs about how others perceive us |
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| one of the "normal" ways our minds process information. it helps us make sense of things more easily -> can lead to negatively prejudiced beliefs |
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| reproduction of stereotypic knowledge over time through communication processes |
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| making exaggerated or more certain judgments based on minimal info |
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