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Social psychology
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Study of how people influence others' behavior, beliefs, and attitudes
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Social facilitation
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Enhancement of performance brought about by the presence of others
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Attribution
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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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Social comparison theory
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Theory that we seek to evaluate our beliefs, attitudes, and abilities by comparing our reactions with others'
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Mass hysteria
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Outbreak of irrational behavior that is spread by social contagion
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Conformity
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Tendency of people to alter their behavior as a result of group pressure
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Parametric studies
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Studies in which as experimenter systematically manipulates the independent variable to observe its effects on the dependent variable
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Deindividuation
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Tendency of people to engage in uncharacteristic behavior when they are stripped of their usual identities
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Groupthink
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Emphasis on group unanimity at the expense of critical thinking and sound decision making
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Group polarization
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Tendency of group discussion to strengthen the dominant positions held by individual group members
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Cults
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Groups of individuals who exhibit intense and unquestioning devotion to a single cause
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Inoculation effect
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Approach to convincing people to change their minds about something by first introducing reasons why the perspective might be correct and then debunking it
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Obedience
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Adherence to instructions from those of higher authority
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Pluralistic ignorance
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Error of assuming that no one in a group perceives things as we do
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