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Social Psychology with Professor Scott Plous

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show The belief that others are paying more attention to our appearance and behavior than they really are.  
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illusion of transparency   show
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show What we know and believe about ourselves.  
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self-schema   show
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possible selves   show
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show Evaluating one’s abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others.  
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individualism   show
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show Construing one’s identity as an autonomous self.  
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collectivism   show
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interdependent self   show
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planning fallacy   show
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impact bias   show
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immune neglect   show
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show 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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show A person’s overall self- evaluation or sense of self-worth.  
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show 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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show 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   show
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show 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   show
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self-serving attributions   show
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defensive pessimism   show
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false consensus effect   show
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show The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one’s abilities and one’s desirable or successful behaviors.  
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group-serving bias   show
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show Protecting one’s self-image with behaviors that create a handy excuse for later failure.  
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show 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   show
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show 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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show 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   show
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sleeper effect   show
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show Physical attractiveness and similarity  
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