Social Behavior

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Chapter 16

• Social Behavior

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Social Psychology

• Attitudes
• Cognitive dissonance

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Person Perception

• Impression formation
• Person schema
• Primacy effect
• Self-fulfilling prophecy

• Attribution
• Personal
• Situational
• Fundamental attribution error

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Stereotypes

• Cognitive approach to stereotypes
• Ingroup favoritism (ingroup-outgroup bias)
• Outgroup homogeneity

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Prejudice

• Negative attitude toward members of a particular
  group
• Racism
• Sexism
• Ageism

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Discrimination

• Negative behavior toward members of a particular
  group

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Interpersonal Attraction

• Proximity (mere exposure)
• Similarity
• Physical attractiveness

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Theories of Love Relationships

• Concept/prototype of love (Beverly Fehr)
• Evolutionary view
• Triangular theory (Robert Sternberg)
• Passionate love
• Compassionate love
• Fatuous love
• Consummate love

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Social Influence

• Social norms
• Conformity
• Asch conformity experiments
• Compliance
• Foot-in-the-door
• Door-in-the-face
• Obedience
• Milgrams obedience studies

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Helping Behavior

• Modeling/observational learning
• Presence of others
• Bystander effect
• Diffusion of responsibility