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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
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Hub Person

An individual who acts as a central point of information and communication within a network.

Diffuse Status Characteristics

Information about a person’s abilities that are only obliquely relevant to the group’s task, and derive mainly from large-scale category memberships outside the group.

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people when the desire for harmony or conformity results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Consensual Positive Validation

The process through which individuals seek validation and approval for their beliefs or actions from others, typically within a social group that shares similar views.

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