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|Above average effect |The tendency for people to rate themselves as above the average on most positive social|
| |attributes |
|Action identification |The level of interpretation we place on an action: low level interpretation focus on |
| |the action itself, while higher-level interpretations focus on its ultimate goals |
|Actor-observer effect |To attribute our own behaviour mainly to situational causes but the behaviour of others|
| |mainly to internal (dispositional) causes |
|Adaptive response |Any physical characteristic or behavioural tendency that enhances the odds of |
| |reproductive success for an individual or for other individuals with similar genes |
|Additive tasks |Tasks for which the group product is the sum or combination of the efforts of |
| |individual members |
|Affect |Our current feelings and moods |
|Aggression |Behaviour directed toward the goal of harming another living being who is motivated to |
| |avoid such treatment |
|Altruistic personality |A cluster of traits e.g. high in empathy, belief in a just world, that predisposes |
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