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1
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What is a group?

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Collection of people with shared features or attributes.

2
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What is social facilitation?

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Better performance in competition. Improved by merely being observed.

3
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What is social inhibition?

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Distracting impact of being evaluated.

4
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What is social loafing?

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People don’t work as hard when in groups as they expect others to pick up the slack. Rope pulling experiment.

5
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What is risky shift?

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A group consensus is almost

always riskier than the average decision made by individuals prior to a group discussion

6
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What is group polarisation?

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Group discussion strengthens the average inclination of group members.

7
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Why do we help others?

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Reciprocity and cultural norms.

8
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What is deinviduation?

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Anonymity – within crowd, by mask or

uniform (e.g. Stanford prison experiment).

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What is dehuminisation?

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Victims made anonymous - war.