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Social Psychology with Professor Scott Plous

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spotlight effect   The belief that others are paying more attention to our appearance and behavior than they really are.  
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illusion of transparency   The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others.  
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self-concept   What we know and believe about ourselves.  
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self-schema   Beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information.  
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possible selves   Images of what we dream of or dread becoming in the future.  
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social comparison   Evaluating one’s abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others.  
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individualism   The concept of giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications.  
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independent self   Construing one’s identity as an autonomous self.  
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collectivism   Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity accordingly.  
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interdependent self   Construing one’s identity in relation to others.  
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planning fallacy   The tendency to under- estimate how long it will take to complete a task.  
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impact bias   Overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events.  
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immune neglect   The human tendency to underestimate the speed and the strength of the “psychological immune system,” which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen.  
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dual attitude system   Differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (consciously controlled) attitudes toward the same object. Verbalized explicit attitudes may change with education and persuasion; implicit attitudes change slowly, with practice that forms new habit.  
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self-esteem   A person’s overall self- evaluation or sense of self-worth.  
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terror management theory   Proposes that people exhibit self-protective emotional and cognitive responses (including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews and prejudices) when confronted with reminders of their mortality.  
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self-efficacy   A sense that one is competent and effective, distinguished from self-esteem, which is one’s sense of self-worth. A sharpshooter in the military might feel high self-efficacy and low self-esteem.  
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locus of control   The extent to which people perceive outcomes as internally controllable by their own efforts or as externally controlled by chance or outside forces.  
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learned helplessness   The sense of hopelessness and resignation learned when a human or animal perceives no control over repeated bad events.  
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self-serving bias   The tendency to perceive oneself favorably.  
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self-serving attributions   A form of self-serving bias; the tendency to attribute positive outcomes to oneself and negative outcomes to other factors.  
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defensive pessimism   The adaptive value of anticipating problems and harnessing one’s anxiety to motivate effective action.  
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false consensus effect   The tendency to overestimate the commonality of one’s opinions and one’s undesirable or unsuccessful behaviors.  
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false uniqueness effect   The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one’s abilities and one’s desirable or successful behaviors.  
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group-serving bias   Explaining away outgroup members’ positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions (while excusing such behavior by one’s own group).  
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self-handicapping   Protecting one’s self-image with behaviors that create a handy excuse for later failure.  
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self-presentation   The act of expressing oneself and behaving in ways designed to create a favorable impression or an impression that corresponds to one’s ideals.  
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self-monitoring   Being attuned to the way one presents oneself in social situations and adjusting one’s performance to create the desired impression. (Also known as being a "social chameleon").  
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central route to persuasion   When people are motivated and able to think about an issue, they are likely to take this method of persuasion—focusing on the arguments  
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peripheral route to persuasion   Rather than noticing whether the arguments are particularly compelling, people might follow this method of persuasion—focusing on cues that trigger automatic acceptance without much thinking.  
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credibility   perceived expertise and trustworthiness  
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sleeper effect   Delayed persuasion, after people forget the source or its connection with the message.  
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Forms of attractiveness that aid persuasion   Physical attractiveness and similarity  
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