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| Any behavior that has a positive impact on other people |
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| Any behavior that has a negative impact on other people |
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| Making judgments about ourselves through comparison with others |
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| Comparing yourself with a person who ranks lower than you on some dimension |
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| Comparing yourself with a person who ranks higher than you on some dimension |
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| Marriage of two people who are similar to one another |
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| The process of revealing private thoughts, feelings, and one's personal history to others |
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| Any exchange between two people of attention, information, affection, favors, or the like |
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| Theory stating that rewards must exceed costs for relationships to endure |
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| A personal standard used to evaluate rewards and costs in a social exchange |
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| Love that is associated with high levels of interpersonal attraction, heightened arousal, mutual absorption, and sexual desire |
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| Feelings of connectedness and affection for another person |
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| Deep emotional and/or sexual feelings for another person |
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| The determination to stay in a long-term relationship with another person |
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| A relationship based on intimacy, but lacking passion and commitment |
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| Form of love characterized by intimacy and commitment but not passion |
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| Form of love characterized by intimacy, passion, and commitment |
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| With regard to romantic love, the nearly exclusive attention lovers give to one another |
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| A stable and positive emotional bond |
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| An emotional bond marked by a tendency to resist commitment to others |
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| An emotional bond marked b conflicting feelings of affection, anger, and emotional turmoil |
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| Study of the evolutionary origins of human behavior patterns |
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| Unwillingness of bystanders to offer help during emergencies or to become involved in others' problems |
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| Diffusion of responsibility |
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| Spreading the responsibility to act among several people, reduces the likelihood that help will be given to a person in need |
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| Emotional arousal that occurs when you feel some of another person's pain, fear, or anguish |
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| Empathy-helping relationship |
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| Observation that we are most likely to help someone else when we feel emotions such as empathy and compassion |
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| Any behavior that has a negative impact on other people |
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| Any action carried out with the intention of harming another person |
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| A person who studies the natural behavior patterns of animals |
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| Frustration-aggression hypothesis |
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| States that frustration tends to lead to aggression |
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| Stimuli or signals that are associated with aggression and that tend to elicit it |
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| The observation that weapons serve as strong cues for aggressive behavior |
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| Combines learning principles with cognitive processes, socialization, and modeling, to explain behavior |
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| Media depictions of sexual violence or of forced participation in sexual activity |
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| The removal of inhibition; results in acting out behavior that normally would be restrained |
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| A reduction in emotional sensitivity to a stimulus |
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| Personal strategies for reducing or curbing anger |
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| A negative emotional attitude held against members of a particular group of people |
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| Racial prejudice that has become institutionalized (that is, it is reflected in government policy, schools, and so forth) and that is enforced by the existing social power structure |
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| Institutionalized prejudice against members of either sex, based solely on their gender |
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| An institutionalized tendency to discriminate on the basis of age; prejudice based on age |
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| The belief that heterosexuality is better or more natural than homosexuality |
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| Treating members of various social groups differently in circumstances where their rights or treatment should be identical |
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| Blaming a person or a group for the actions of others or for conditions not of their making |
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| Redirecting aggression to a target other than the actual source of one's frustration |
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| Prejudicial attitudes held toward persons who are perceived as a direct threat to one's own interests |
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| Prejudice held out of conformity to group views |
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| Authoritarian personality |
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| A personality pattern characterized by rigidity, inhibition, prejudice, and an excessive concern with power, authority, and obedience |
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| Placing one's own group or race at the center- that is, tending to reject all other groups but one's own |
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| An unwarranted positiveness or certainty in matters of belief or opinion |
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| Oversimplified images of the traits of individuals who belong to a particular social group |
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| Prejudice that is expressed in disguised fashion |
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| Differences in the power, prestige, or privileges of two or more persons or groups |
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| Social interaction that occurs on an equal footing, without obvious differences in power or status |
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| A goal that exceeds or overrides all others; a goal that renders other goals relatively less important |
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| A condition in which two or more persons must depend on one another to meet each persons's needs or goals |
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| A method of reducing prejudice; each student receives only part of the information needed to complete a project or prepare for a test |
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| Giving equal status, recognition, and acceptance to different ethnic and cultural groups |
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| Individuating information |
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| Information that helps define a person as an individual, rather than as a member of a group or social category |
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| Belief that people generally get what they deserve |
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| An expectation that prompts people to act in ways that make the expectation come true |
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| Rivalry among groups, each of which regards itself as superior to others |
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