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social facilitation | improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others. |
social loafing | the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable. |
deindividuation | the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity. |
group polarization | the enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group. |
groupthink | the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. |
Culture | the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. |