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Aggression
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Behavior whose purpose is to harm another (strategy of getting scarce resources)
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis
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Animals aggress when and only when their goals are frustrated (can't get what they want/need)
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Cooperation
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Behavior by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit
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Prisoner's dilemma
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A game that represents every day situations where we have to decide whether to cooperate and trust, or only be out for ourselves
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Wason card-selection
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People ahve a hard time doing this task when it's in the abstract, but when it's concrete social rule, they do a lot better
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Prejudice
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Positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their group membership
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Discrimination
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Positive or negative behavior toward another person based
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Deindividuation
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Immersion in a group causes people to become less concerned with their personal values
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Diffusion of responsibility
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Individuals feel diminished responsibility for their actions because they are surrounded by others acting the same way
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Altruism
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Behavior that benefits another without benefiting onesef
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Kin selection
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Animals act altruistically to help their kin; process by which evolution selects for individuals who cooperate with relatives
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Reciprocal altruism
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Behavior that benefits another with the expectation that those benefits will be returned later
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Selectivity
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Women tend to be more selective than men; either because reproduction holds greater consequences, or because of societal pressure
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Mere exposure effect
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We like things we are exposed to more
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Social-exchange hypothesis
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People stay in relationships as long as they think there is a positive ratio of costs to benefits
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