Homework answers / question archive / tendency to perform better on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others Better performance in others' presence Application 1: a person playing sports Application 2: someone performing a concert loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity Application 1: cults Application 2: mobs : enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within group- opinions become stronger after discussion in groups Application 1: Republicans Application 2: philosophers : occurs when desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives Desire for harmony overrides realism Application 1: Pearl Harbor Application 2: 9/11 unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members Negative behavior toward certain groups Application 1: women Application 2: homosexuals generalized (sometimes accurate but often over generalized beliefs about a group of people Over generalized beliefs Application 1: Race Application 2: gender "us"-people whom one shares a common identity A Common identity is shared Application 1: cliques Application 2: religion tendency to favor one's own group

tendency to perform better on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others Better performance in others' presence Application 1: a person playing sports Application 2: someone performing a concert loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity Application 1: cults Application 2: mobs : enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within group- opinions become stronger after discussion in groups Application 1: Republicans Application 2: philosophers : occurs when desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives Desire for harmony overrides realism Application 1: Pearl Harbor Application 2: 9/11 unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members Negative behavior toward certain groups Application 1: women Application 2: homosexuals generalized (sometimes accurate but often over generalized beliefs about a group of people Over generalized beliefs Application 1: Race Application 2: gender "us"-people whom one shares a common identity A Common identity is shared Application 1: cliques Application 2: religion tendency to favor one's own group

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1. tendency to perform better on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others
   Better performance in others' presence
   Application 1: a person playing sports
   Application 2: someone performing a concert
2. loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
   Application 1: cults
   Application 2: mobs
3. : enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within group- opinions become stronger after discussion in groups
   Application 1: Republicans
   Application 2: philosophers
4. : occurs when desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
   Desire for harmony overrides realism
   Application 1: Pearl Harbor
   Application 2: 9/11
5. unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members
   Negative behavior toward certain groups
   Application 1: women
   Application 2: homosexuals
6. generalized (sometimes accurate but often over generalized beliefs about a group of people
   Over generalized beliefs
   Application 1: Race
   Application 2: gender
7. "us"-people whom one shares a common identity
   A Common identity is shared
   Application 1: cliques
   Application 2: religion
8. tendency to favor one's own group.
   Favoritism toward one's own group
   Application 1: sports
   Application 2: family
9. tendency to favor one's own group.
   Favoritism toward one's own group
   Application 1: sports
   Application 2: family
10. theory that prejudice offers and outlet for anger by providing someone to blame
    Blaming someone else
    Application 1: holocaust
    Application 2: children