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●● Rationalizing.
Answer: Justifying Behaviors by dismissing warning signs of challenges
●● Stereotyping.
Answer: Demonizing outsiders who disagree
●● Self-censorship.
Answer: group members withholding doubts or alternative ideas
●● mind guards.
Answer: group members hide or block problematic information from
group & leaders
●● illusion of invulnerability.
Answer: overconfidence and risky decision-making
●● direct pressure.
Answer: silencing or punishing dissenting voices
,●● Unquestioned Beliefs/ Belief in Inherent Morality.
Answer: Ignoring moral or practical consequences. Assumes the group
can do no wrong
●● Core Psychological Needs.
Answer: Identity, Safety, Care, Autonomy, growth, and Stimulation
●● Expectancy Violation Theory.
Answer: a theory of communication that analyzes how
individuals respond to unanticipated violations
of expectations
●● Predictive.
Answer: predictions about how people will be behave
based on observations/past patterns.
"What will happen?"
●● Prescriptive.
Answer: Socially taught understandings of how
people should behave in particular contexts.
"What should happen?"
, ●● Violation Variance.
Answer: The evaluation of the positive or negative value of the violation
●● Threat Threshold.
Answer: Everyone has their own unique level of
comfort or discomfort regarding particular
expectation violations
●● Relationship Conflict.
Answer: Disagreements stemming from
negative experiences (with
each other, projecting other
experiences onto another, or
stereotyping). Conflict stems
from tensions in the
relationship rather than a
particular behavior
●● Data
Conflict.
Answer: Disagreements based on