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Social Psychology   show
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show The need to belong; motivation to be accepted by others  
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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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Pluralistic ignorance   show
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Conformity   show
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show Generally accepted rules of behavior in a society  
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Descriptive social norms   show
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show What people should think, feel, or do  
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Informational influence   show
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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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Compliance   show
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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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show Perceived doctor ordered subject to administer shocks to see how far the subject would go to be obedient while "hurting" and innocent person  
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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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Situational attributions   show
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Correspondence bias   show
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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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Stereotype   show
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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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show A persuasive technique in which compliance with a small request is followed by compliance with a larger request that might otherwise have been rejected  
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Low-balling technique   show
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show Automatically making assumptions that attractive people have other good attributes to them  
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"Thin Slices of Behavior"   show
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fundamental attribution error   show
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show Performing better at something because there are other people around  
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show Performing worse/not attempting something because there are other people around  
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Deindividuation   show
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