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SocPsy - Week 4
Social Psychology with Professor Scott Plous
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| social loafing | The tendency for people to exert less effort when they pool their efforts toward a common goal than when they are individually accountable. (Opposite is "social facilitation"). |
| free riders | People who benefit from the group but give little in return. |
| social comparison | Evaluating one’s opinions and abilities by comparing oneself to others. |
| group polarization | Group-produced enhancement of members' preexisting tendencies; a strengthening of the members' average tendency, not a split within the group. |
| groupthink | "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." - Irving Janis (1971) |
| outgroup homogeneity effect | ??? |