Social psychology

Naïve vs. confederate

Attribution – situation, dispositional, actor-observer bias, self-serving bias

Impression formation – primacy effect, proximity, mere exposure, reciprocity, attractiveness (halo effect)

Romantic attraction and mating – matching hypothesis

Conformity – social norms, studies, factors influencing

Obedience – Milgram study, factors influencing

Compliance – foot in door, door in face, low-ball

Group effects – bystander, diffusion of responsibility, anonymous, deindividuation, how increase helping behavior

Social facilitation (audience effects, co-action effects), social loafing

Prosocial behavior – altruism, empathy, social responsibility norms

Attitudes – cognitive, emotional, behavioral

Persuasion – source, audience, message, medium

Prejudice – why?

Group polarization and groupthink

Social roles

Cognitive dissonance – and how reduce

Aggression – biological factors (heredity, arousal, testosterone, neurological, alcohol), frustration-aggression hypothesis, scapegoating, personal space, crowding, outgroup, social learning theory

Realistic conflict theory, ingroups and outgroups, social-cognitive theory (stereotypes)