All glossaries
Social Influence & Group Behavior
Other people change how we behave. We take cues from their reactions, respond to authority, and adjust what we say to fit the group. Those influences help explain why people can act differently together than they do alone.
The topics here include pressure to fit in, power, leadership, group identity, and the ways opinions shift during discussion. They also cover pluralistic ignorance, when people misunderstand what others believe and act in ways that keep the misunderstanding going. A room that looks united can contain plenty of private disagreement.
Definitions
- Actor-Observer Bias
- Attribution Theory
- Behavioral Insights
- Bikeshedding
- Chain of Command
- Coercive Power
- Deindividuation
- Expert Power
- Explicit bias
- Group Polarization
- Groupshift
- Implicit bias
- Intergroup contact theory
- Intergroup threat
- Leader-Member Exchange Theory
- Milgram Experiment
- Mum Effect
- Noble Edge Effect
- Normative Social Influence
- Nudge Unit
- Out-Group
- Pluralistic ignorance
- Presuasion
- Referent Power
- Reward Power
- Self-categorization theory
- Semantic Barriers
- Semantic Noise
- Social Identity Theory
- Social Loafing
- Social Power
- Stereotype threat
- Tall Poppy Syndrome
- Ultimate Attribution Error