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| 312432898 | Social Psychology | the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another | |
| 312432899 | GRIT | strategy designed to decrease international tensions | |
| 312432900 | Mere Exposure Effect | the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them | |
| 312432901 | Stereotype | a generalized belief about a group of people | |
| 312432902 | Normative Social Influence | influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval | |
| 312432903 | Passionate Love | an aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship | |
| 312432904 | Ingroup | "us" - people with whom one shares a common identity | |
| 312432905 | Informational Social Influence | influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality | |
| 312432906 | Conformity | adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard | |
| 312432907 | Prejudice | an unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members | |
| 312432908 | Social Trap | a situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior | |
| 312432909 | Superordinate Goals | shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation | |
| 312432910 | companionate love | the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined | |
| 312432911 | outgroup | "them" - those perceived as different or apart from one's ingroup | |
| 312432912 | social facilitation | stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others | |
| 312432913 | attribution theory | suggest that we judge people based on their disposition (personality) and the situation | |
| 312432914 | cognitive dissonance theory | theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent | |
| 312432915 | self-fulfilling prophecy | a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by influencing a specific individual to act a certain way | |
| 312432916 | conflict | a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas | |
| 312432917 | social exchange theory | the theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs | |
| 312432918 | equity | a condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it | |
| 312432919 | ingroup bias | the tendency to favor one's own group | |
| 312432920 | social loafing | the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable | |
| 312432921 | attitude | feelings, often based on our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events | |
| 312432922 | foot-in-the-door- phenomenon | the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request | |
| 312432923 | deindividuation | the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity | |
| 312432924 | group polarization | the enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group | |
| 312432925 | groupthink | the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives | |
| 312432926 | scapegoat theory | the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame | |
| 312432927 | just-world phenomenon | the tendency of people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get | |
| 312432928 | aggression | any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy | |
| 312432929 | frustration-aggression principle | the principle that frustration-the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal-creates anger, which can generate aggression | |
| 312432930 | self-disclosure | revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others | |
| 312432931 | altruism | unselfish regard for the welfare of others | |
| 312432932 | bystander effect | the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present |
