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It occurs when people pursue an activity for its own sake. It can be due to affective factors, when the person engages in the behavior because it feels good, or cognitive factors, when they see it as something good or meaningful. [62] An example of intrinsic motivation is a person who plays basketball during lunch break only because they enjoy ...
They don’t care if others think they’re strange or not cool. They care more about being and doing what they want than being and doing what they think others like." 10. Authentic people are ...
It states that people are more likely to engage in a behavior that contradicts the beliefs they hold personally when offered a smaller reward compared to a larger reward. [1] The larger reward minimizes the cognitive dissonance generated by acting in contradiction to one's beliefs because it feels easier to justify.
Reactance theory assumes there are "free behaviors" individuals perceive and can take part in at any given moment. For a behavior to be free, the individual must have the relevant physical and psychological abilities to partake in it, and must know they can engage in it at the moment, or in the near future. "Behavior" includes any imaginable act.
Human social behavior is affected not only by individual relationships, but also by how behaviors in one relationship may affect others. [20] Individuals that actively seek out social interactions are extraverts, and those that do not are introverts. [21] Romantic love is a significant interpersonal attraction toward another.
The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them. An explanation for this is cognitive dissonance. People reason that they help others because they like them, even if they do not, because their minds struggle to maintain logical consistency between their actions and perceptions.
This study found that actual introverts were perceived and judged as having more extraverted-looking expressive behaviors because they were higher in terms of their self-monitoring. [47] This means that the introverts consciously put more effort into presenting a more extraverted, and rather socially desirable, version of themselves.
High sensation seekers tend to engage in high-risk sexual behavior such as having multiple sexual partners, [16] and failing to use condoms to protect themselves against disease. [8] They also tend to have permissive sexual attitudes. Risky sexual behaviour is particularly related to the disinhibition facet of sensation seeking.