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| trial of conformity, a group majority influences individual judgements |
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| tendency of people to adopt the behaviors, attitudes, and opinions of other members of group |
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| diffusion of responsibility |
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| dilution or weakening of each group member obligation to act when responsibility is perceived and shared by all group members or accepted by leader |
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| psychological orientation focuses on inner characteristics of individuals such as personality dispositions, values, character, and general makeup. |
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| poor judgement and bad decisions made by members of groups that are overly influenced by perceived group concensus or leaders point of view |
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| group which an individual identifies |
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| those outside the group which individual identifies |
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| knowledge about sequence of events and actions thst is expecte in particular setting |
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| view that environmental conditions influence people's behavior as much as or more than personal dispositions |
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| combination of people, activities and interactions among people, setting in where behavior occurs, and social norms governing behavior in setting |
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| groups expectation regarding what is appropriate for members attitudes and behaviors |
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| branch of psychology studies effects of soical variables and cognition on individual behavior and social interactions |
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| socially defined pattern of behavior that is expected of person in given setting or group |
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| cogintive dissonance theory |
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| highly motivating state, people have conflicting conflicts when voluntary actions conflict with attitudes or values |
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| negative action against individual as result of his or her group membership, the behavior that prejudice generates |
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| states how people decide whether to pursue relationship by weighing potential value of relationship against expectation of success in relationship establishment |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| tendency to overemphasize internal, dispostional causes, and minimize external situational pressures. Most common in individualistic cultures. |
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| prediction that people will find friends and mates that are perceived to be at same level of attractiveness |
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| negative attitude toward individual based soley on his or her membership in particular group, no direct evidence |
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| notion that people at work will make more friends among those who are nearby, most contact "nearness" |
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| reward theory of attraction |
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| social learning view that predicts we like best those that give uus maximum rewards at minimum costs |
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| temporary and highly emotional condition based on infatuation and sexual desire |
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| blaming innocent person or group for own's troubles and discriminating or abusing them |
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| attributional pattern, one takes credit for success but denies responsibility for failure |
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| notion that people are attracted to those mosy similar to themselves on significant dimensions |
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| perceived difference or similarity between oneself and another person |
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| individuals subjective interpretation of other people and of others relationship with them |
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| negative effect on performance that arises when indivual becomes aware that members of his or her group are expected to perform poorly in that domain |
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| triangular theory of love |
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| Robert Sternberg, various kinds of love: passion (erotic) intimacy (sharing of feelings) and commitment (dedication to putting relationship first in life) |
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| stanford prison experiment |
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| study of institutional power in directing normal, healty college students volunteer playing randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards to behave contrary to dispositional tendencies as cruel guards, and pathological prisoners |
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