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Unselfish interest in helping another person.
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| The view that people are motivated to discover the underlying causes of behavior as part of their effort to make sense of the behavior. |
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| The tendency for an individual who observes an emergency to help less when other people are present than when the observer is alone. |
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An individual's psychological discomfort (dissonance) caused by two inconsistent thoughts.
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| A change in a person's behavior to coincide more closely with a group standard. |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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Observers' overestimation of the importance of internal traits and underestimation of the importance of external situations when they seek explanations of an actor's behavior.
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The solidification and further strengthening of an individual's position as a consequence of a group discussion.
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| The impaired group decision making that occurs when making the right decision is less important than maintaining group harmony. |
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| The phenomenon that the more we encounter someone or something, the more likely we are to start liking the person or thing even if we do not realize we have seen it before. |
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| Normative social influence |
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The influence others have on us because we want them to like us.
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| The tendency to take credit for our successes and to deny responsibility for our failures. |
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Imitative behavior involving the spread of behavior, emotions, and ideas.
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Improvement in an individual's performance because of the presence of others.
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| The view that our social identities are a crucial part of our self-image and a valuable source of positive feelings about ourselves. |
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| An individual's fast-acting, self-fulfilling fear of being judged based on a negative stereotype about his or her group. |
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