This group factor has the ability to render members of a group unidentifiable.
What is group size?
100
The phenomenon in which groups decisions are usually riskier.
What is risky shift phenomenon?
100
This is the process by which certain group members motivate and guide the group.
What is leadership?
100
This man reported the bigger the mob, the more its members lose self-awareness.
Who is Brian Mullen?
100
Loss of self-awareness and evaluation apprehension.
What is deindividuation?
200
In a big mob, members tend to lose this trait, and become willing to commit atrocities such as burning, lacerating, or dismembering the victim.
What is self-awareness?
200
This concept leads members to overestimate their might and right.
What is groupthink?
200
Consistency and persistence convey this quality.
What is self-confidence?
200
This man's experiments have shown that activities such as throwing rocks and group singing can set the stage for more disinhibited behavior.
Who is Ed Diener?
200
Group-produced enhancement of members' preexisting tendencies.
What is group polarization?
300
This type of computer and phone sensation offers it's users anonymity, that they are unable to achieve in person.
What is the internet?
300
To avoid uncomfortable disagreements, members withhold or discount their misgivings.
What is self-censorship?
300
These are the determinants of minority influence.
What is consistency, self-confidence, and defection?
300
This MIT graduated tested the commonly held belief that groups are more cautious than individuals for his master's thesis in management.
Who is James Stoner?
300
Evaluating one's opinions and abilities by comparing oneself with others.
What is social comparison?
400
The opposite of self-awareness.
What is deindividuation?
400
Some members protect the group from information that would call into question the effectiveness of morality of its decisions.
What is mindguards?
400
Social leaders generally have this type of style.
What is democratic style?
400
This World War 2 Warsaw air raid survivor noted that violence is enabled and escalated by killers egging on one another.
Who is Robert Zajonc?
400
A motive to protect or restore one's sense of freedom.
What is reactance?
500
These types of outbursts by large groups are often preceded by minor actions that arouse and divert people's attention.
What is aggressive outbursts?
500
Groups discount challenges by collectively justifying their decisions.
What is rationalization?
500
These types of leaders are more about the big "we" and less about the big "I".
What is effective leaders?
500
This psychologist believed that when a leader promotes an idea and when a group insulates itself from dissenting views, groupthink may produce defective decisions.
Who is McCauley?
500
Leadership that, enabled by a leader's vision and inspiration, experts significant influence.