Leo plays soccer. When Leo has a fantastic game, he sees himself as a really great player with remarkable skills, but when Leo has a bad game, he sees his failures as dependent on the situation. He tends to attribute his successes to himself, and his setbacks to others and the situation, which means that Leo is engaging in a:

Think back to an in-class example where I asked half the class to write about dental pain, and half the class to write about mortality. After that writing exercise, the people who wrote about mortality in the first place completed more word fragments in a way that was related to death (e.g., given the letters S K _ _ L, people wrote “skull” instead of “skill). This is an example of:

Please match the constructs with Affect, Behavior, or Cognition:   Prejudice

Greg is discussing politics with their friends. Most of Greg’s friends are pretty right-leaning, while Greg is pretty left-leaning. After the discussion, everyone in the discussion finds themselves even more left or right in their political beliefs- their attitudes have become more extreme than they were before the group started discussing the topic. This is a case of:

When someone is at the top of the social hierarchy, the system appears to be working in their favor. These people are likely to tend to see and accept inequality among different groups, and are thus likely to be high in a personality dimension known as:

Ray is a person with multiple legally married partners, so he is engaging in polygamy. His culture does not see anything wrong with polygamy, but when Ray comes to America, he learns that being a polygamist is frowned upon. The difference in acceptance of polygamy is due to differences in norms that are seen as appropriate within a culture, but don’t necessarily have to do with harm, which are known as:

Teens at a local high school have been really angry about a new rule at their high school that is requiring them to wear uniforms. They’re feeling strong emotions about their lack of freedom of choice, which is an example of:

The _______________ is the part of the brain that is responsible for controlling aggressive impulses. It is involved in higher level cognition, which we call executive functioning.

As you are browsing Instagram, you might see a glamorous celebrity living their best life, and you might start to feel less than great about yourself. When you believe that other people are better off than you are, you might be engaging in:

Emily is a teacher who forces her students to interact with each other as part of their grade. At the beginning of the semester, she assigns the students to work in groups for the rest of the semester. By the end of the semester, the students have found that they’ve become better acquainted with and fonder of the other students in their group, due to the concept of: