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1. duration neglect

giving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencea culture in which people tend to think of themselves as distinct social entities, tied to each other by voluntary bonds of affection and organizational memberships but essentially separate from other people and having attributes that exist in the absence of any connection to othersinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitored

2. social loafing

a culture in which people tend to think of themselves as distinct social entities, tied to each other by voluntary bonds of affection and organizational memberships but essentially separate from other people and having attributes that exist in the absence of any connection to othersinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancegiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitored

3. social facilitation

4. independent (individualistic) culture

giving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experienceinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancea culture in which people tend to think of themselves as distinct social entities, tied to each other by voluntary bonds of affection and organizational memberships but essentially separate from other people and having attributes that exist in the absence of any connection to othersthe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitored

5. effort justification

initially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredthe tendency to reduce dissonance by justifying the time, effort, or money devoted to something that turned out to be unpleasant or disappointinggiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experience

6. hindsight bias

initially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredpeople's tendency to be overconfident about whether they could have predicted a given outcomegiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experience

7. dominant response

in a person's hierarchy of possible responses in any context, the response he or she is most likely to makeinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredgiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experience

8. self-fullfilling prophecy

the tendency for people to act in ways that bring about the very thing they expect to happengiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experienceinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitored

9. social intuitionist model of moral judgment

giving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencethe idea that people first have fast, emotional reactions to morally relevant events, and then rely on reason to arrive at a judgment of right or wronginitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitored

10. mere exposure effect

giving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencethe idea that repeated exposure to a stimulus, such as an object or a person, leads to greater liking of the stimulusthe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performance

11. complementarity

the tendency for people to seek out others with characteristics that are different from, and complement, their owngiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experienceinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitored

12. induced (forced) compliance

giving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancesubtly compelling people to behave in a manner that is inconsistent with their beliefs, attitudes, or values in order to elicit dissonance and therefore a change in their original attitudes and values

13. basic science

science or research concerned with trying to understand some phenomenon in its own right, with a view toward using that understanding to build valid theories about the nature of some aspect of the worldinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancegiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitored

14. natural experiment

giving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experienceinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoreda naturally occurring event or phenomenon having somewhat different conditions that can be compared with almost as much rigor as in experiments where the investigator manipulates the conditions

15. causal attribution

initially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredgiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencelinking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality trait is responsible for a behavior

16. affective forecasting

predicting future emotions, such as whether an event will result in happiness or anger or sadness, and for how longinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancegiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitored

17. experimental research

the tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredgiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experienceinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancein social psychology, research that randomly assigns people to different conditions, or situations, and that enables researchers to make strong inferences about how these different conditions affect behavior

18. self-selection

the tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredin correlational research, a problem that arises when the participant, rather than the researcher, selects his or her level on each variable, bringing with this value unknown other properties that make causal interpretation of a relationship difficultinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancegiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experience

19. construal level theory

initially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancea theory about the relationship between temporal distance (and other kinds of distance) and abstract or concrete thinking: psychologists distance actions and events are thought about in abstract terms; actions and events that are close at hand are thought about i concrete termsthe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredgiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experience

20. construal

one's interpretation of the social situationinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancegiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitored

21. applied science

the tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredscience or research concerned with solving important real-world problemsgiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experienceinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performance

22. parental investment

giving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experienceThe evolutionary principle that costs and benefits are associated with reproduction and the nurturing of offspring. Because these costs and benefits are different for males and females, one gender will normally value and invest more in each child than will the other.the tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performance

23. correlational research

giving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experiencethe tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performanceresearch that involves measuring two or more variables and assessing whether there is a relationship between them

24. fundamental attribution error

the tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task in which individual contributions cannot be monitoredinitially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performancethe failure to recognize the importance of situational influences on behavior, and the corresponding tendency to overemphasize the importance of dispositions on behaviorgiving relative less importance to the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable or unpleasant, in judging and remembering the overall experience

25. subliminal

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