Created by: Carol Chan
Number of Blossarys: 1
An interdisciplinary field that explores the neural bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors, and how these processes and behaviors affect our brain and biology.
Group-produced enhancement of members’ preexisting tendencies; a strengthening of the members’ average tendency, not a split within the group.
Loss of self-awareness and evaluation apprehension; occurs in group situations that foster responsiveness to group norms, good or bad.
Original meaning: the tendency of people to perform simple or well learned tasks better when others are present. Current meaning: the strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses in the ...
The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one’s abilities and one’s desirable or successful behavior.
Explaining away out-group members’ positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions (while excusing such behavior by one’s own group).