What is Giving oneself more responsibility for an outcome or event than is warranted; often indexed by comparing one’s own judgments of personal responsibility to judgments of responsibility allocated by others.

What is A socially shared set of cognitive generalizations (e.g., beliefs, expectations) about the qualities and characteristics of the members of a particular group or social category.

What is A psychological reaction to situations and experiences that are so cognitively, perceptually, or emotionally stimulating that they tax or even exceed the individual’s capacity to process incoming information.

What is The process of revealing personal, intimate information about oneself to others.

What is The spontaneous outbreak of atypical thoughts, feelings, or actions in a group or aggregation, including psychogenic illness, common hallucinations, and bizarre actions.

What is The tendency for individuals to pay back in kind what they receive from others.

What is The belief that one’s own tribe, region, or country is superior to other tribes, regions, or countries.

What is In ecological psychology, the quality of the fit between the human occupants and the physical situation.

What is The displacement of emotions from one person to another during the treatment, as when feelings for a parent are transferred to the analyst or feelings about siblings are transferred to fellow group members.

What is The psychological state that occurs when individuals feel that their personal attainments or their group’s attainments are below their expectations.

What is A performance situation that is structured in such a way that success depends on performing better than others.

What is The prediction that contact between the members of different groups will reduce intergroup conflict.

What is The tendency for individuals and groups to gain an advantage over others when interacting in their home territory.

What is The withdrawal of a participant from a change-promoting group that occurs before the individual has reached his or her therapeutic goals.

What is The actions of a group of people who are responding in a similar way to an event or situation, including people who all occupy the same location (a crowd), as well as mass phenomena in which individuals are dispersed across a wide area

What is A bargaining strategy that begins with cooperation, but then imitates the other person’s choice so that cooperation is met with cooperation and competition with competition.

What is Reducing social categorization tendencies by minimizing the salience of group memberships and stressing the individuality of each person in the group.

What is The tendency for members of a group to comment immediately after the person sitting opposite them.

What is A group of people who meet regularly to help one another cope with or overcome a problem they hold in common.

What is An experiential state caused by a number of input factors, such as group membership and anonymity, that is characterized by the loss of self-awareness, altered experiencing, and atypical behavior.

What is
A simulation of social interaction in which players must make either cooperative or competitive choices in order to win; used in the study of cooperation, competition, and the development of mutual trust.

What is The tendency for perceivers to attribute negative actions performed by members of the outgroup to dispositional qualities and positive actions to situational, fluctuating circumstances

What is An ecological analysis of behavior settings arguing that both understaffing (not enough people) and overstaffing (too many people) can be detrimental.

What is An approach to group therapy in which clients are taught to understand the unity of their emotions and cognitions through a leader-guided exploration of their behavior in the group situation.

What is An explanation of collective behavior suggesting that the uniformity in behavior often observed in collectives is caused by members’ conformity to unique normative standards that develop spontaneously in those groups.