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| Social Psychology | study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another |
| Attitude | relatively stable and enduring system of feelings and beliefs about a given person, object, of event |
| Attribution Theory | theory that specifies how people make inferences about the causes of behavior |
| Consensus | term from Kelly's attribution model that indicates the extent to which a response is similar across different people |
| Group | two or more individuals who interact in such a manner that each person influences the other(s) and is influenced in return |
| Norms | rules that apply to every member of a group |
| Roles | norms that apply to specific members of a group who occupy special positions within it |
| Refernce Group | groups to which people relate and/or want to belong |
| Field Studies | studies conducted in everyday, real-world settings |
| Conformitty | tendency for people to match their behavior to that of other members of a group |
| Obedience | tendency for people to comply with orders, either real of imagined, from an authority figure |
| Prosocial behavior | behavior that benefits other people |
| Bystander Intervention | research that focuses on when and under what conditions individuals help others in need of assistance |
| Diffusion of Responsibility | situation in which individuals in a group assume less personal responsility for helping a victim as the group becomes larger |
| Pluralistic Ignorance | tendency not to intervene in a situation based on the fact that others are not intervening |
| Superordinate Goals | objectives or tasks shared by antagonistic groups that are designed to breed cooperation and reduce conflict |
| Ethnocentrism | tendency for people to evaluate their own group as superior to other groups |
| Group Polarization | tendency for decisions made by groups to be more extreme than those made by individuals |
| Loneliness | feelings of deprivation resulting from insatisfactory socail relations with others |
| Social Facilitation | tendency for individuals to perform better in the presence of other people |
