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| biologically based need for interpersonal connections |
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| social influence processes generally serve us well, unless accepted unquestioningly |
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| social facilitation or disruption |
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| enhancement of easy tasks, or disruption of difficult ones, elicited by the presence of others |
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| process of assigning causes to behavior |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influences on other people's behavior |
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| jones and harries (1967) castro study |
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| subjects inferred that debaters' positions on cuba reflected their actual attitudes despite the random assignment of debaters to positions-a striking example of the fundamental attribution error |
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| we evaluate our beliefs, attitudes, and abilities by comparing ourselves to others |
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| outbreak of irrational behavior that is spread by social contagion |
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| many people become simultaneously convinced of bizarre falsehoods |
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| tendency of people to change their behavior because of group influence |
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| emphasis on group unanimity at the expense of critical thinking and sound decision making |
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| does anyone else think this is an emergency? |
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| diffusion of responsibility |
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| the phenomenon in which people slack off in groups |
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| diffusion of responsibility |
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| in groups, individuals feel less responsible for outcome |
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| knowledgeable about bystander nonintervention |
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| distrust anything unfamiliar |
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| ultimate attribution errors |
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| attributing behavior of entire groups to their dispositions |
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