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 the tendency for members to believe that their groups are performing effectively.

What is a view of leadership, attributed to Leo Tolstoy, which states that history is determined primarily by the “spirit of the times” rather than by the actions and choices of great leaders.

What is a hypothetical unifying mental force linking group members together; the fusion of individual consciousness or mind into a transcendent consciousness.

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 brainstorming sessions that involve generating new ideas in writing rather than orally, usually by asking members to add their own ideas

What is the tendency to overestimate the amount of influence and control leaders exert on their groups and their groups’ outcomes.

What is the term used by Kurt Lewin to describe scientific inquiry that both expands basic theoretical knowledge and identifies solutions to significant social problems.

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 shared reservoir of information held in the memories of two or more members of a group.

What is prefacing a major request with a minor one that is so inconsequential that few people would refuse to comply.

What is the belief that all things, including individuals and groups, have a basic nature which makes them what they are and distinguishes them from others; this basic essence, even though hidden, is relatively unchanging and gives rise to surface-level qualities.

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 a group member who shields the group from negative or controversial information by gatekeeping and suppressing dissent.

What is change that occurs when the targets of social influence publicly accept the influencer’s position

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 a small self-regulated groups of employees charged with identifying ways to improve product quality

What is the fact that, just as people sometimes exclude others from group activities in face-to-face activities, online members also sometimes ignore others, effectively excluding

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.