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| the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others |
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| the process of forming impressions of others |
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| cognitive structures that guide information processing |
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| organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people |
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| occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen |
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| ascribe the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings |
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| ascribe the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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| refers to observers' bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others' behavior |
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| tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way |
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| the tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situational factors |
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| involves putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships |
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| involves putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups one belongs to |
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| liking those who show that they like you |
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| a reduction in effort by individuals when they work in groups as compared to when they work by themselves |
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