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- Social Psychology - The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others.
- True Believer - Eric Hoffer's concept of a person whose fanatical devotion to a mass movement or cause overrides critical thinking, driven by a need for identity and belonging.
- Bystander Effect - A social psychological phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help in an emergency when other people are present - the more bystanders, the less likely any will help.
- Parallel Thinking - Edward de Bono's method where all participants think in the same direction simultaneously rather than taking adversarial positions.
- Cult and Culture - An exploration of how cults and cultures share the same etymological root and psychological mechanisms: shared beliefs, rituals, identity, and belonging.
- Moral Outbidding - Competition within a group to demonstrate more intense moral commitment than peers, driving collective standards toward ever-stricter or more extreme positions.
- Purity Loop - A self-reinforcing social cycle in which group members escalate strictness, orthodoxy, or moral intensity to earn status and affiliation, progressively redefining what counts as acceptable membership.
- Social Conformity - The tendency to align one's behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs with group norms to fit in or avoid conflict.
- Groupthink - A psychological phenomenon where the desire for harmony and conformity in a group leads to irrational or dysfunctional decision-making.
- Conformity Bias - The tendency to align one's beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors with the group, even when the group is obviously wrong.
- Scapegoat - A person, group, or entity unfairly blamed for problems or misfortunes caused by others, serving as a target for displaced aggression and frustration.
- Stanford Prison Experiment - A landmark 1971 psychology study demonstrating how situational forces and assigned roles can dramatically alter human behavior, even leading ordinary people to act cruelly.
- Pluralistic Ignorance - A social phenomenon where individuals privately disagree with a norm but assume most others accept it, leading to collective conformity to beliefs no one actually holds.
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