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Social Psychology

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Social Psychology   The scientific study of how people think about, interact with, influence, and are influenced by the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of other people.  
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Attitudes   Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people, ideas, or objects that are based on a person's past experiences, shape his or her future behavior, and are evaluative in nature.  
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Elaboration Likelihood Model   Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route, which focuses on a logical, direct argument for change, and the peripheral route, which focuses on less careful, more emotional, and even superficial evaluation.  
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Cognitive Dissonance   A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.  
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Self-perception Theory   Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.  
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Reactance   The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.  
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Social Cognition   The process of analyzing and interpreting events, other people, oneself, and the world in general.  
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Impression Formation   The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.  
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Nonverbal Communication   The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures, tone of voice, vocal inflections, and facial expressions.  
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Body Language   Communication of information through body positions and gestures.  
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Attributions   The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.  
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Fundamental Attribution Error   The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.  
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Actor-observer Effect   The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.  
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Self-serving Bias   People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits, but their failures and shortcomings to external, situational factors.  
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Prejudice   Negative evaluation of an entire group of people, typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.  
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Stereotypes   Fixed, overly simple and often erroneous ideas about traits, attitudes, and behaviors of groups of people; stereotypes assume that all members of a given group are alike.  
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Discrimination   Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.  
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Social Categorization   The process of dividing the world into "in" groups and "out" groups.  
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Social Influence   The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others, either directly or indirectly.  
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Conformity   People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.  
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Obedience   Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.  
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Debriefing   Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.  
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Group   Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals, characteristics, or interests.  
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Social Facilitation   Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.  
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Social Loafing   Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.  
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Group Polarization   Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.  
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Groupthink   The tendency of people in a group to seek concurrence with one another when reaching a decision, rather than effectively evaluating options.  
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Deindividuation   The process by which individuals lose their self-awareness and distinctive personality in the context of a group, which may lead them to engage in antinormative behavior.  
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Aggression   Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.  
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Prosocial Behavior   Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.  
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Altruism   Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward, recognition, or appreciation.  
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Sociobiology   A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.  
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Bystander Effect   Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event, which increase when there are more observers.  
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Interpersonal Attraction   The tendency of one person to evaluate another person (or a symbol or image of another person) in a positive way.  
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Equity Theory   Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable, consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.  
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Intimacy   A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.  
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Ex Post Facto Design   A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.  
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