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attention  Being consciously aware of something or someone.
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attitude  Learned predisposition toward a given object, person, or situation.
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causal attributions  Perceived causes of behaviour.
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cognition  A person's knowledge, opinions, or beliefs.
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cognitive categories  Mental depositories for storing information.
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emotional contagion  One person's emotion spreading to others.
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emotional dissonance  Conflict between organizationally desired and true emotions.
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emotional intelligence  The ability to recognize emotions in one's self and others, taking advantage of helpful ones and keeping control over destructive ones.
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emotional labour  Job requirement that employees must suppress felt emotions and display organizationally desired emotions during interpersonal transactions.
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emotions  Intense feelings in reaction to personal achievements and setbacks that may be felt and displayed.
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fundamental attribution bias  Ignoring environmental factors that affect behaviour.
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job satisfaction  An attitude concerning one's job.
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learned helplessness  Debilitating lack of faith in one's ability to control the situation.
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locus of control  Belief regarding whether one's behaviour and its consequences are due to internal versus external factors.
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perception  Process of interpreting one's environment.
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personality  Stable physical and mental characteristics responsible for a person's identity.
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self-efficacy  Belief in one's ability to do a task.
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self-esteem  One's overall self-evaluation.
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self-monitoring  Observing one's own behaviour and adapting it to the situation.
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self-perception  Person's perception of him- or herself as a physical, social, spiritual being.
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self-serving bias  Taking more personal responsibility for success than failure.
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stereotype  Beliefs about the characteristics of a group.
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