Social Relations

• Prejudice: an unjustifiable attitude towards a group of people.
• Stereotyped: a generalized belief about a group of people.
• Social Inequalities: a principle reason behind prejudice.
• Ingroup: people with whom one shares a common identity.
• Outgroup: those perceived as different than ones in group.
• Ingroup bias: the tendency to favors one own group.
• Scapegoat Theory: the theory that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.
• Aggression: any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy.
• Biology of Aggression
• Genetics
• Neural Influence (is aggression in the brain)
• Biochemical
• Frustration-Aggressive Principle: the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goals. Creates anger which generate aggression.
• Conflict: a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals or ideas. Situation where people must choose between and act that is beneficial to themselves but harmful to others and an act that is moderately beneficial to all.

Attraction:

• Proximity: repeated exposure to something breeds liking.
• Reciprocal Liking: you are more likely to like someone who likes you.
• Similarity: Opposites do not attract. Birds of the same feather do flock together. Similarity breeds content.
• Liking through Association
• Physical Attractiveness
• Love
• Passionate: an aroused state of intense positive absorption of another.
• Compassionate: the deep affectionate attachment, to intertwine love.
• What makes compassionate love work?
• Equity
• Self-disclosure

Altruism: unselfish regard for the welfare of others.

• Bystander Effect (bystanders less willing to help if there are other bystanders around)
• Social Exchange Theory: the idea that our social behavior is an exchange process, which we minimize costs.
• Peace Making: give people superordinate(shared) goals that can only be achieved through cooperation.
• GRIT (Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension Reduction): a strategy of conflict resolution based on the defusing effect that conciliatory gestures can have on parties in conflict.