Concerned with doing the task well even if it means worsening relationships v. Concerned with maintaining group cohesiveness and harmony
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Mob behavior
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Ppl act diff bc others influence them. Can be violent
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Compliance
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Change of behavior in response to an explicit request from another person or group
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Snowball effect
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If the persuader convinces just a few ppl, those ppl will convince more and so on
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Door-in-the-face effect
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A person who refuses to comply with a first request is more likely to comply with a second request
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Risky shift
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Greater willingness of a group than an ind. to take substantial risks
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Foot-in-the-door effect
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Induces compliance. Ex: once people have agreed to do a small task for you, they're more likely to do a big one
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Conformity
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Voluntarily yielding to social norms, even at the expense of one's preferences
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Altruistic behavior
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Helping behavior that is not linked to personal gain
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Stanley Milgram
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The shock experiment/obedience
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Cultural truisms
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Beliefs that most members of a society accept as self-evidently true
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Bystander effect
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Ind. tend to help less when the number of passive bystanders increases
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Polarization
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Shift in attitudes by members of a group toward more extreme positions than the ones held before group discussion
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Norm
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A shared idea or expectation about how to behave
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Great-person theory
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Theory that leadership is the result of personal qualities and traits that qualify one to lead others
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Groupthink
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A process that occurs when the members of a group like one another, have similar goals and are isolated, leading them to ignore alternatives and not criticize group consensus
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Obedience
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Change of behavior in response to a command from another person, typically an authority figure
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Solomon Asch
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Phil Zimbardo
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Stanford prison experiment
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Contingency theory
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Fred Fiedler's. Leadership depends on more than one thing: the traits, the situation, and the response of the group and the leader to each other
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Deindividuation
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A loss of personal sense of responsibility in a group
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Social influence
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The process by which others individually or collectively affect one's perceptions, attitudes, and actions
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Lowball procedure
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Used by salespeople.
1) get person to do something for a low cost
2) raise cost