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show The study of how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others  
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Affiliation Motivation   show
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show The assumption that someone else is going to help/act in a situation  
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Diffusion of responsibility   show
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show Ambiguity in the situation causes worry that other people will judge you  
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show Believing other people know something you don't  
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show The altering of one's opinions or behaviors to match those of others or social norms  
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Social norms   show
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Descriptive social norms   show
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Injunctive/prescriptive social norms   show
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show Adopting the group consensus/conforming because it feel 'correct'  
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show Adopting the group consensus/conforming because we want to fit in with the group/show that we belong  
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show When group decision making is impaired because of the desire to reach or maintain consensus  
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show A change in behavior due to a direct request that is NOT from an authority figure  
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show A change in behavior due to a direct request from an authority figure  
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Asch's conformity experiment   show
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Milgram's obedience experiment   show
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show Judgements about the cause of a person's behavior  
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show Explanations about behavior that refer to internal characteristics (traits)  
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show Explanations about behavior that refer to external events  
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show Tendency for people to overemphasize dispositional attributes (character traits) even when situational attributes clearly explain the behavior  
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show Emphasizing dispositional attributes (traits) when explaining other's behavior but emphasizing situational attributes when explaining your own behavior  
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show Attributing success to dispositional factors (traits) and failure to situational factors; more likely to take responsibility for good and blame situation for bad  
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show Cognitive schema for identifying social groups; easy information processing on people based on their membership to stereotypes; overgeneralization  
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show Negative judgments and attitudes toward someone based on social membership; emotional bias  
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Discrimination   show
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Steps to overcome biases   show
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show A persuasive technique in which compliance with a target request is preceded by a large, unreasonable request (ask for a million dollars, then ask for a more reasonable amount. More likely to say yes)  
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Foot-in-the-door technique   show
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Low-balling technique   show
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Halo effect   show
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show Making snap judgements and assumptions based on very limited amounts of information  
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fundamental attribution error   show
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Social facilitation   show
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show Performing worse/not attempting something because there are other people around  
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show Immersion of an individual within a group, leading to anonymity  
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