Social Definitions

Question	Answer
Agentic State	The mental condition when independence, conscience and free-will are suppressed as the individual acts as an agent for someone else
Autonomous State	The mental condition when then person is acting as an independent individual, in which individual conscience is fully active
Moral Strain	The consequences of going against your own conscience and doing something you know to be wrong
In Group	A group that you believe yourself to be a member of
Out Group	A group that has something in common with one of your in-groups but which you are not a member of
Social Categorisation	The act of grouping people according to some category
Social Identification	The act of personally accepting that you belong to a particular group by accepting their norms
Social Comparison	The act of comparing social groups with each other

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	Created by pmfisher1996 about 11 years ago