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Affordance

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an opportunity or threat provided by a situation

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Attention

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process of consciously focusing on aspects of our environment or ourselves

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Attitudes

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favorable or unfavorable evaluations of a particular person, object, event, or idea

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Automaticity

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ability of a behavior or cognitive process to operate without conscious guidance once it’s put into motion

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Chronically Accessible

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state of being easily activated, or primed, for use

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Collectivistic Culture

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a culture that socializes its members to think of themselves in terms of their relationships and as members of the larger social group and to prioritize the concerns of their relationship partners and groups before their own

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Counterfactual Thinking

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process of imagining alternative, “might have been” versions of actual events

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Descriptive Norm

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a norm that defines what behaviors are typically performed or commonly done in a situation

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Emotions

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relatively intense feelings characterized by physiological arousal and complex cognitions

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Exemplar

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a mental representation of a specific episode, event, or individual

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Goal

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  • a desired outcome

- something one wishes to achieve or accomplish

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Individualistic Culture

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a culture that specializes its members to think of themselves as individuals to give priority to their personal goals

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Injunctive Norm

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a norm that defines what behaviors are typically approved or disapproved

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Moods

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relatively long-lasting feelings that are diffuse and not directed toward particular targets

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Motivation

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the force that moves people toward desired outcomes

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Motive

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a high-level goal fundamental to social survival

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Person-situation Fit

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the extent to which a person and a situation are compatible

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Pluralistic Ignorance

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the mistaken impression on the part of group members that, because no one else is acting concerned, there is no cause for alarm

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Priming

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the process of activating knowledge or goals, of making them ready for use

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Reflected Appraisal Process

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the process through which people came to know themselves by observing or imagining how others view them

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Schema

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a mental representation capturing the general characteristics

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Scripted Situation

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a situation in which certain events are expected to occur in a particular sequence

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Self-concept

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a mental representation capturing our views and beliefs about ourselves

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Self-esteem

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our attitude toward ourselves

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Self-perception process

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the process through which people observe their own behavior to anger internal characteristics such as traits, abilities, and attitudes

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Self-presentation

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  • the process through which we try to control the impressions people form of us
  • synonymous with impression management
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Self-regulation

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-the process through which people select, monitor, and adjust their strategies in an attempt to reach their goals

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Social Comparison

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the process through which people come to know themselves by comparing their abilities, attitudes, and beliefs with those of others

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Socialization

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the process whereby a culture teaches its members about its beliefs, customs, habits, and language

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Bait-and-switch Technique

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gaining a commitment to an arrangement, then making the arrangement unavailable or unappealing and offering a more costly arrangement

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Compliance

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behavior change that occurs as a result of a direct request

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Conformity

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behavior change designed to match the action of others

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Descriptive Norm

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a norm that defines what behaviors are typically performed

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Disrupt-then-reframe Technique

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a tactic that operates to increase compliance by disrupting one’s initial, resistance-laden view of a request and quickly reframing the request in more favorable terms

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Door-in-the-face Technique

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a technique that increases compliance by beginning with a large favor likely to be rejected and then retreating to a more moderate favor

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Expert Power

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the capacity to influence other people as a function of a person’s presumed wisdom or knowledge

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Foot-in-the-door Technique

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a technique that increases compliance with a large request by first getting compliance with a smaller, related request

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Injunctive Norm

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a norm that defines what behaviors are typically approved or disapproved

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Labeling Technique

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assigning a label to an individual then requesting a favor that is consistent with the label

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Low-ball Technique

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gaining a commitment to an arrangement and then raising the cost of carrying out the arrangement

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Norm of Reciprocity

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the norm that requires that we repay others with the form of behavior they have given us

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Obedience

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compliance that occurs in response to a directive from an authority figure

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Participant Observation

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a research approach in which the researcher infiltrates the setting to be studied and observes its workings from within

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Personal Commitment

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anything that connects an individuals identity more closely to a position or course of actions

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Reactance Theory

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brehm’s theory that we react against threats to our freedoms by reasserting those freedoms, often by doing the opposite of what we are being pressured to do

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Social Influence

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a change in overt behavior caused by real or imagined pressure from others

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Social Validation

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an interpersonal way to locate and validate the correct choice

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That’s-not-all Technique

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a technique that increases compliance by “sweetening” an offer with additional benefits

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Authoritarianism

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the tendency to submit to those having greater authority and to denigrate those having less authority

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Discrimination

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behaviors directed toward people on the basis of their group members

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Disidentify

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to reduce in one’s mind the relevance of a particular domain

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Ingroup Bias

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the tendency to benefit members of one’s own groups over members of other groups

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Minimal Intergroup Paradigm

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an experimental procedure in which short-term, arbitrary, artificial groups are created to explore the foundations of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination

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Perceived Outgroup Homogeneity

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the phenomenon of overestimating the extent to which members within other groups are similar to each other

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Prejudice

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a generalized attitude toward members of a social group

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Realistic Group Conflict Theory

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the proposal that intergroup conflict, and negative prejudices and stereotypes, emerge out of actual competition between groups for desired resources

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Scapegoating

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the process of blaming members of other groups for one’s frustrations and failures

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Social Dominance Orientation

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the extent to which a person desires that his or her own group dominate other groups and be socially and materially superior to them

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Social Identity

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the beliefs and feelings we have toward the groups to which we see ourselves belonging

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Stereotype

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generalized belief about members of social groups

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Stereotype Threat

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the fear that one might confirm the negative stereotypes held by others about one’s group

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Stereotyping

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the process of categorizing an individual as a member of a particular group and then inferring that he or she possesses the characteristics generally held by members of that group

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Cohesiveness

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the strength of the bonds among group members

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Communication Network

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the pattern of information flow through a group

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Deindividuation

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the process of losing one’s sense of personal identity, which makes it easier to behave in ways inconsistent with one’s normal values

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Dynamical system

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a system (group) made up of many interacting elements (people) that changes and evolves over time

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Group

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  • two or more individuals who influence each other

- stronger when members are interdependent and share a common identity, and they possess structure

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Groupthink

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a style of group decision making characterized by a greater desire among members to get along and agree with one another than to generate and critically evaluate alternative viewpoints and positions

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Group Polarization

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occurs when group discussion leads members to make decisions that are more extremely on the side of the issue that the group initially favored

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Minority Influence

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occurs when opinion minorities persuade others of their views

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Role

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expectation held by the group for how members in particular positions ought to behave

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Social Facilitation

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the process through which the presence of others increases the likelihood of dominant responses, leading to better performance on well-mastered tasks and worse performance on unmastered tasks

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Social Loafing

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reducing one’s personal efforts when in a group

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Transactive Memory

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a group memory system made up of (1) the knowledge held by individual group members and (2) a communication network for sharing this knowledge among members

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Transformational Leadership

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leadership that changes the motivations, outlooks, and behaviors of followers, enabling the group to reach its goals better

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Aggression

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behavior intended to injure another

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Assertiveness

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behavior intended to express dominance or confidence

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Indirect Aggression

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behavior intended to hurt someone without face-to-face confrontation

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Direct Aggression

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behavior intended to hurt someone to his or her face

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Emotional Aggression

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hurtful behavior that stems from angry feelings

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Instrumental Aggression

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hurting another to accomplish some other (nonaggressive) goal

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Displacement

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indirect expression of an aggressive impulse away from the person or animal that elicited it

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Catharsis

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discharge of aggressive impulses

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Social Learning Theory

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theory that aggression is learned through direct reward or by watching others being rewarded for aggressiveness

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Psychopath

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  • individual characterized by impulsivity, irresponsibility, low empathy, grandiose self-worth, and lack of sensitivity to punishment
  • such individuals are inclined toward acting violently for personal gain
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Differential Parental Investment

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the principle that animals making higher investment in their offspring (female as compared to male mammals, for instance) will be more careful in choosing mates

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Empathy

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-the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

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Defensive Attributional Style

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a tendency to notice threats and interpret other people’s behavior as intended to do one harm

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Effect/Danger Ratio

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assessment of the likely beneficial effect of aggressiveness balanced against the likely dangers

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Natural Selection

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the process by which characteristics that help animals survive and reproduce are passed on to their offspring

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Adaptations

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a characteristic that is well designed for survival and reproduction in a particular environment

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Evolution

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  • Change over time in organic (living) structure

- Due to both chance and natural selection

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Bystander Effect

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the tendency of a bystander to be less likely to help in an emergency if there are other onlookers present

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Byproducts

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-Characteristics that do not solve adaptive problems and do not have functional design but are carried along with adaptations
Ex: whiteness of bones; belly-button

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Noise

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-Random effects produced by forces such as chance mutation, sudden changes in environment, or chance effects during development
Ex: shape of belly button

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Adaptive Problems

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  • a problem that affects survival and reproduction
  • Our circuits are specialized to solve adaptive problems that our ancestors faced during our species’ evolutionary history
  • Recurred over the course of the species’ history
  • Solution to the problem affects reproduction either directly or indirectly
  • Adaptations = problem-solving devices
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Common Misunderstandings of Evolutionary Theory

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  • Human behavior is genetically determined (Genetic determinism)
  • If it’s evolutionary we can’t change it
  • The naturalistic fallacy: what is natural is good
  • Evolutionary theory requires improbable computational abilities of organisms
  • Current mechanisms are optimally designed
  • Evolutionary theory implies a motivation to maximize gene reproduction
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Levels of Explanation

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  • Adaptive problem
  • Cognitive programs
  • Neurophysiology
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Functional Specialization

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-brain is like a Swiss army knife

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Domain Specificity

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  • many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices
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Parental Investment

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  • any investment by the parent in an individual offspring that increases their change of survival at the cost of the parent’s ability to invest in other offspring
  • females have a much higher minimum investment
  • the sex whose minimum obligatory PI is greater will become a limiting resource for the sex with the lower minimum
  • the sex with lower minimum PI will compete with each other for access to members of the sex investing more (intersexual competition)
  • intersexual selection: the sex that invests more will be choosier about selecting a mate
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Instinct Blindness

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  • Seeing, reaching out and grasping an object, having a conversation
  • Blind to our instincts because they work so well
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Social Categorization

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  • Some ways we categorize each other (age, sex, kin versus non-kin, social status, friendship status, health, in-group versus out-group, race)
  • Important info we can use to make inferences about behavior and other attributes
  • Psychologists have claimed that 3 dimensions automatically activated when you encounter another individual are: age, sex, race
  • Been difficult to find conditions under which race was not encoded
  • Sex and age are primary dimensions
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In-group vs. Out-group Psychology

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  • Random group assignment enough to elicit ingroup/outgroup effect
  • ingroup bias
  • us versus them
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Robbers Cave Experiment

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  • 22 white 5th grade middle class boys (Didn’t know each other prior to study)
  • animosity began in first competition and continued
  • name-calling, aggression
  • boys saw members of their own group as positive and other groups as negative
  • hostility toward other group continued after tournament
  • only thing that relieved hostility was shared enemy of third group
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Coalitional Psychology-How do we track alliances

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-In not completely racially integrated societies, shared appearance may be correlated with patterns of association, cooperation, and competition

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Memory Confusion Paradigm

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-Can you erase the effects of race?
-Users errors in recall to see if individuals categorize targets along dimensions such as sex or race
-Much research using this paradigm has shown that people encode a target
-When only given verbal cues, individuals will categorize based on RACE more than COALITION
-When a visual cue is offered that tracks coalition (team membership), then people do NOT categorize by race
Rather, they categorize by COALITION

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Stereotypes including positive vs negative stereotypes

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  • Generalized beliefs about members of a particular group
  • Can be positive or negative
  • Can be explicit or implicit
  • Things we believe to be true about an individual based on their group classification
  • Even positive stereotypes can have negative effects
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Out-group Homogeneity and In-group Heterogeneity

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-One basis for stereotypes is the tendency to see members of an outgroup as similar (called outgroup homogeneity) and members of your ingroup as different from each other (called ingroup heterogeneity).

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Stigmatization (including what groups tend to be stigmatized)

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  • Occurs when an individual is negatively evaluated based on characteristic that distinguishes them from other members of society
  • Mentally ill, Mentally retarded, Obese, Homosexuals, Cancer patients, Members of varies racial, ethnic, and religious groups, Social exclusion
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Social Exclusion-evidence from both nonhumans and humans

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  • nonhuman: Territoriality as social exclusion, Status hierarchies (Individual at top excludes others from resources)
  • human: dyadic cooperation (avoidance and punishment of cheaters), parasite avoidance
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Putting the “brakes” on sociality

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  • For sociality to be functional, there must be brakes
  • An organism that chose to socialize in any way with every other creature it encountered would be a strange one
  • Natural selection should shape constraints and brakes on sociality
  • The necessity to be discriminating in selection of partners
  • Plays a role in the generation of stigma
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Pathogens and parasite avoidance

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-avoidance of those carrying pathogens
Parasites can have 3 main effects on a host:
-Can cause damage that disrupts symmetry
-May activate anti-parasite systems (preening/grooming)
-Parasites can manipulate their hosts to increase their own spread

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Immune System

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  • adaptations to deal with pathogen threat
  • immune system detects threat, has initial defense response, and then threat specific response
  • metabolically costly
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Behavioral Immune System

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  • Duncan
  • behavioral immune system detects cues, uses the functionally appropriate affect and cognition, and chooses the functionally appropriate behavior
  • involves sensory, emotional, and behavioral processes
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False Sick vs. False Healthy and why they are not symmetrical errors

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  • false sick is when we think someone is infectious but they aren’t; costs us social resources
  • false healthy is when we think someone is healthy but they are infectious; costs us illness, mates, death
  • overgeneralization bias (overly general set of cues that imply pathogens; tendency to think people are sick when they display potentially relevant cues)
  • studies using the implicit association task
  • Activation of evolved disease avoidance mechanisms may contribute to contemporary stigmas and prejudices in this particular form
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Material from the documentaries we watched in class

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-stanford prison study

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Robert Frank’s view of emotions as commitment devices

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  • Questions classical view that was (and still is to some extent) held that we are rational, self interested calculators
  • kidnapper problem (allow kidnapper to blackmail you)
  • briefcase problem (expectation of responding irrationally is often a good deterrent)
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Proposed functions of some of the different emotions

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  • fear = prep of fight or flight
  • disgust = prep to vomit/expel potential pathogens
  • sadness = withdraw, lick wounds, wait for better times, reassess and recalibrate
  • anger = primary function is to regulate other persons’ welfare tradeoff ratios with respect to you
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Ekman’s basic emotions

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  • fear, anger, sadness, disgust, happiness, surprise, contempt
  • Much research shows that these basic emotions have identifiable facial expressions
  • FACS
  • cross cultural universality
  • allows for frame-by-frame or slow-motion viewing
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Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

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  • Anatomically bases system for measuring all visually discernible facial movement
  • 44 action units
  • Given muscle may contract in different regions
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What is an action unit (AU)

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-each one has a numeric code

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What can be coded with FACS

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  • intensity of an action on a 5 pt scale
  • timing of facial expressions
  • events
  • can be coded into emotion and non-emotion categories
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Difference between Duchenne and non-Duchenne smiles

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  • Duchenne smiles: Orbicularis oculi muscle (Around eye) is recruited for smiles in spontaneous expressions of enjoyment
  • non: non-enjoyment smile, orbiculares oculi not involved
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Deception and how it relates to facial expression of emotion

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  • There is no single behavioral cue that tells you someone is lying
  • Hot spots: Behavioral signs that contradict what someone is saying
  • hot spots do not necessarily mean they are lying (Could be other reasons for inconsistency)
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Effects of botox on emotion

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  • paralyzes underlying muscles
  • hypothesis suggests botox interferes with process of reading feelings of others by mimicking facial expressions
  • Dulls perception and interpretation of facial expressions of emotions in others
  • in experiment, accuracy was lower in botox group for detecting emotions
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Material from the documentaries we watched in class

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  • stanford prison study
  • the human behavior experiments (fast food restaurants, 2005 frat brother died, kitty Genovese, smoke study, Abu Ghraib)
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Display Rules

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  • eckman
  • facial expressions of emotions are universal
  • what differs are the display rules culture to culture
  • Cultural and idiosyncratic differences in display rules
  • Describe what people learn about the need to manage appearance of particular emotion in particular situations
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Langur Monkeys and infanticide

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  • One resident adult male (Reproductively monopolizes females in troop)
  • Once a new male gains control he systematically kills all infants in the troop
  • Psychological design features of male langur only passed on if he becomes resident male of a troop
  • fertility of the troop females is the major constraint of resident male’s reproductive success
  • Only new resident males commit infanticide
  • Resident males do not kill infants in other troops
  • Males don’t kill adult females
  • Males don’t kill weaned offspring
  • Males don’t commit infanticide throughout duration of their tenure
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Step vs. Biological Parents

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  • A clear prediction from evolutionary psychology is that substitute parents will generally tend to care less profoundly for children than natural parents
  • Increased risk of harm from a non-related parent than a natural parent
  • Step parenthood is the single most powerful risk factor for child abuse that has yet been identified
  • The highest rate of child abuse for kids living with one natural parent and one stepparent was age 0-4 (when costs are high)
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Trivial Altercations

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  • Disputes started over petty issues
  • Philadelphia homicides - 37% were trivial; All men - why?
  • Escalated battle over status
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Culture of Honor

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  • People (particularly men) ready to defend honor with violence if necessary
  • Alcohol can affect our perception of things to make accidents seem intentional and then things escalate
  • filing cabinet study (Southerners more aggressive)

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