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Social media

Social media is the medium through which internet users can contact and share information over the internet.

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Behaviourism

Culture; Social media

Behaviourism is a psychological perspective that focuses only on observable behaviour and assumes that behavioural patterns result solely from conditioning through the use of reward and punishment.

Alienation

Culture; Social media

In sociology and critical social theory, alienation refers to an individual's estrangement from traditional community and others in general. It is considered by many that the atomism of modern ...

Behaviour modification

Culture; Social media

This denotes a variety of techniques for deliberate reshaping of human behaviour based on structural learning. One such is systematic desensitisation: the treatment of phobias by gradually ...

An aligning action is any behaviour that indicates to others the acceptance of a particular definition of the situation. When the house lights dim in a theater, for example, members of the audience ...

Altruism

Culture; Social media

Altruism is a tendency to see the needs of others as more important than one's own and to therefore be willing to sacrifice for others.

Bounded rationality

Culture; Social media

Bounded rationality is the notion that in decision making, rationality of individuals is limited by the information they have, the cognitive limitations of their minds, and the finite amount of time ...