to express or emit nonverbal behavior
The tendency for individuals, when frustrated or unhappy, to displace aggression onto groups that are disliked, visible and relatively powerless
Imagining alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened, but didn't.
The desire to help another person even if it involves a cost to the helper
to interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behavior other people express
drawing meaningful conclusions about another person's personality or skills based on an extremely brief sample of behavior
The tendency to see relationships, or correlations, between events that are actually unrelated
explanation for one's success that credit internal, dispositional factors
plus explanations for one's failures that blame external, situational factors
A change in ones behavior due to the real or imagined influence of other people
People use _____, which are mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world
people's tendency to engage in self defeating behavior in order to have a ready excuse should they perform poorly or fail
If you had just looked out the window and seen a large man leaning against a building drinking from a paper bag, you would assume that the man on the bus was drunk. This is an example of what?
the idea that we have a set amount of an ability that cannot change
people's predictions about how they will feel in response to a future emotional event
The study of direct attempts at _______ is a major part of social psychology
Sets of implicit rules that specify proper sexual behavior for a person in a given situation, varying with the person's gender, age, religion, social status, and peer group