Human relationships

Essential topics in human relationships TO BE ELABORATED

Group behaviour

Acculturation, Berry's model of acculturation, acculturative stress

Cognitive dissonance, COMING

Compliance techniques, foot-in-the-door technique (FITD), COMING

Conformity, informative conformity, normative conformity

Cultural dimensions, individualism vs. collecticism, power distance, indulgence vs. restraint, long- vs. short-term orientation, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity vs. femininity

Emic and etic approach to research, ethnocentric, universal behaviour, deductive approach, imposed etic

Social identity theory (SIT), COMING

Social learning theory (SLT), cognitive influences, behavioural influences, environmental influences, observational learning, vicarious learning, vicarious reinforcement, reciprocal determinism, attention, retention, reproduction, motivation, self-efficacy, locus of control, learned helplessness

Interpersonal relationships

Chemical messengers

Cognitive explanations

Communication/language, 

Strategies for improving relationships

Human relationships links

Under construction

Asch Conformity Experiment
Summary of Salomon Asch's classic experiment on conformity 

Geert Hofstede's website
With this website you can familiarize yourself with Hofstede's 6D model of culture

10 minutes with Geert Hofstede on individualism vs. collectivism
Geert Hofstede himself explaining this cultural dimension

The brain in love
Helen Fisher TED-talk on the neurobiology of love

Everything You've Heard About Oxytocin Is Wrong
BrainCraft video on the topic

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Gottman Institute video on the topic

Robbers Cave Experiment: Unmasking the Roots of Tribal Conflict
Sprouts video on this classical experiment

More coming!