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| The scientific study of the way in which peoples thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people |
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| The effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior |
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| The aspects of peopl's personalities that make them different from other people |
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| Fundamental Attribution Error |
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| The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors |
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| A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment. |
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| The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world. |
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| A school of Psychology stressing the importance of studying the suvjective way in which an object appears in people's minds rater than the objective, physical attributes of the object. |
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| People's evaluations of their own self-worth--that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent. |
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| How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social info to make judgements and decisions. |
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