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Social Thinking + Social Influence

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Definition
Attribution   a conclusion about the cause of an observed behavior/event  
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Situational Attribution   factors outside the person doing the action, such as peer pressure  
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Dispositional Attribution   the person's stable, enduring traits, personality, ability, emotions  
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Fundamental Attribution Error   when we go too far in assuming that a person's behavior is caused by their personality (a behavior demonstrates a trait); overemphasize dispositional attribution and underemphasize situational attribution.  
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Attitudes   feelings, ideas and beliefs that affect how we approach and react to each other people, objects, and events.  
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Central Route Persuasion   going directly through the rational mind, influencing attitudes with evidence and logic (eg. my product has been proven more effective); takes longer, but lasts longer  
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Peripheral Route Persuasion   changing attitudes by going around the rational mind and appealing to fears, desires, associations (eg. Jennifer aniston uses my product! So does Ryan Gosling!); temporary and takes less time  
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Door-in-the-face technique   tendency to be more likely to agree to a smaller request after being presented with and turning down a larger one.  
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Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon   tendency to be more likely to agree to a large request after agreeing to a small one.  
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Effects of Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon   adjust attitudes and actions (eg. liking the people they agreed to help and disliking the people they agreed to harm)  
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Stanford Prison Study   ending up adopting the attitudes of whatever roles they were randomly assigned to; "guards" had demeaning views of "prisoners" and "prisoners" has rebellious dislife of "guards"  
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Cognitive Dissonance   when our actions are not in harmony with out attitudes  
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Cognitive Dissonance Theory   we tend to resolve this dissonance by changing our attitudes to fit our actions.  
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Conformity   adjusting our behavior or thinking to fit with a group standard.  
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Automatic mimicry   affecting behavior (not by choice): contagious yawning, adopting regional accents, empathetic shifts in mood that fit the mood of people around us, and adopting coping styles (violence, yellow, withdrawal)  
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The chameleon Effect   form of unconscious mimicry: collaborator intentionally rubbed face or shook foot, which led to a greater likelihood of participant doing the same behavior.  
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Social norm   a "correct"/"normal" way to behave or think in this group  
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Normative Social Influence   going along with others in pursuit of social approval or belonging (to avoid disapproval/rejection)  
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Informational Social Influence   going along with others because their ideas and behaviors make sense, evidence in our social environments changes our minds (deciding which side of the road to drive on)  
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Social Facilitation   individual performance is intensified when you are observed by others (eg. like running in a marathon or performing better in a larger audience)  
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Social Loafing   tendency of people in a group to show less effort when not held individually accountable.  
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Deindividuation   happens when people are in group situations involving anonymity and arousal.  
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Group Polarization   when people of similar views form a group, discussion within the group makes their views more extreme. Thus different groups become MORE different, more polarized, in their views (liberal vs. conservatives).  
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GroupThink   in pursuit of social harmony (and avoidance of open disagreement) groups will make decisions w/o an open exchange of ideas (prevents thinking and realistic assessment)  
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