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This concept explains why people work less hard on a group project than they would if personally accountable for the outcome.
- Bystander effect
- Social loafing
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Free riding
After a disaster, neighbors who never spoke before suddenly help each other—illustrating how shared hardship can create bonds through common experience.
- Reciprocity
- Empathy
- Social cohesion
- Altruism
This term describes making a snap judgment about someone's entire character based on a single positive trait, like attractiveness.
- Anchoring bias
- Primacy effect
- Attribution error
- Halo effect
This persuasion route involves being swayed by celebrity endorsements or attractive packaging rather than evaluating the actual argument.
- Elaboration route
- Central route
- Peripheral route
- Systematic processing
You find yourself liking a coworker more and more simply because you keep running into them at the coffee shop every morning—no deep conversation needed.
- Familiarity bias
- Propinquity effect
- Mere exposure effect
- Recognition heuristic
This term for negative attitudes toward a group based on their membership rather than individual qualities is a cornerstone concept in studying discrimination.
- Ethnocentrism
- Stereotyping
- Prejudice
- Scapegoating
This theory proposes that we determine our own attitudes and emotions by observing our own behavior, much as we would observe someone else.
- Self-verification theory
- Social comparison theory
- Self-perception theory
- Attribution theory
Two rival groups of boys at a summer camp became hostile toward each other, but cooperation on shared goals dissolved the conflict in this landmark field study.
- Blue eyes/brown eyes exercise
- Milgram experiment
- Stanford prison experiment
- Robbers Cave experiment
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