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| A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members |
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| A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. These are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information. |
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| Unjustified negative BEHAVIOR toward a group or its members |
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| An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race |
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| Institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given race |
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| An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given sex |
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| Institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given sex |
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| Social Dominance Orientation |
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| A motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups |
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| Believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and culture group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups |
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| Authoritarian Personality |
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| A personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status |
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| Realistic Group Conflict Theory |
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| The theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources. |
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| The "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships. |
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| "Us" ---a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity. |
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| "Them" ---a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup. |
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| People's self-protective emotional and cognitive responses when confronted with reminders of their mortality. |
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| Outgroup Homogeneity Effect |
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| Perception of outgroup members as more similar to on another than are ingroup members. Thus "they are alike; we are diverse." |
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| The tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race. (aka--cross-race effect or other-race effect) |
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| A person's expectation of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination |
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| Explaining away outgroup members' positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions while excusing such behavior by one's own group. |
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| The tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get. |
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| Accommodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by thinking of them as "exceptions to the rule." |
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| Accommodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group. |
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| A disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. |
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| Two or more people who, for longer than a few moments, interact with and influence one another and perceive one another as "us." |
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| Co-participants working individually on a noncompetitive ativity |
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| Social facilitation (Original) |
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| The tendency of people to perform simple or well-learned tasks better when others are present. |
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| Social facilitation (current) |
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| The strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses in the presence of others |
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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' pre-existing 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 |
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| The process by which certain group memebers 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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| Physical or verbal behavior intended to cause harm |
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| Aggression driven by anger and performed as an end in itself (aka affective aggression) |
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| Aggression that is a means to some other end |
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| An innate, unlearned behavior pattern exhibited by all members of a species |
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| Frustration-Aggression Theory |
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| The theory that frustration triggers a readiness to aggress |
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| The blocking of goal-directed behavior |
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| The redirection of aggression to a target other than the source of the frustration. Generally, the new target is a safer or more socially acceptable target |
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| The perception that one is less well-off than others with whom one compares oneself |
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| The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded and punished. |
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| Emotional release. This view states that the aggressive drive is reduced when one "releases" aggressive energy, either by acting aggressively or by fantasizing aggression |
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| Positive, constructive, helpful social behavior; the opposite of antisocial behavior |
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| Culturally provided mental instructions for how to act in various environments |
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