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Social Psychology

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Norms   Rules and expectations that regulate social life, including explicit laws and implicit cultural conventions  
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Role   A given social position that is governed by a set of norms for "proper" behavior  
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Culture   A set of values, beliefs, and customs shared by most member of a community that governs their behavior  
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Attribution theory   The idea that people are motivated to explain their own and other people behavior by attributing causes of the behavior to a situation or a dispostion  
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Fundamental attribution error   The tendency, in explaining other people's behavior, to overestimate personality factors and underestimate the influence of the situation  
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Better-than-average effect   The bias for most individual to believe that they are above-average performers in the most domains  
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Just world hypothesis   the belief that the world is fair, and that bad people are punished and good people are rewarded  
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Cognitive dissonance   A state of tension that occurs when a person simultaneously holds two beliefs that are psychologically inconsistent or when a person's belief is incongruent with their behavior  
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Familiarity effect   the tendency of people to feel more positive toward a person, product, or item the more familiar they are with it  
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Elaboration likelihood model   A model proposing two routes (central and peripheral) by which persuasive communications can produce attitude change, as determined by an individual's cognitive and motivation  
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Groupthink   The tendency for all members of a group to think alike  
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Diffusion of responsibility   In groups, the tendency of members to avoid taking action because they assume that others will  
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Deindividuation   A loss of awareness of one's own individuality whereby people in crowds, feeling anonymous, may do destructive thing they would never do on their own  
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Social Identity   The part of a person's self-concept that is based on their identification with a national, religious, ethnic, occupational, or other social affiliation.  
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Stereotype   A summary impression that members of a group share common characteristics  
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Prejudice   A strong, unreasonable dislike of a group and it's members, often coinciding with negative serotypes.  
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