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  2. Compact theory - Wikipedia

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    Compact theory contrasts with contract theory, which holds that the United States was formed with the consent of the people—rather than the consent of the states—and thus the federal government has supreme jurisdiction over the states. Compact theory has never been upheld by the courts.

  3. Negotiation theory - Wikipedia

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    Negotiation is a specialized and formal version of conflict resolution, most frequently employed when important issues must be agreed upon.Negotiation is necessary when one party requires the other party's agreement to achieve its aim.

  4. Consensus decision-making - Wikipedia

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    The word consensus is Latin meaning "agreement, accord", derived from consentire meaning "feel together". [2] A noun, consensus can represent a generally accepted opinion [3] – "general agreement or concord; harmony", "a majority of opinion" [4] – or the outcome of a consensus decision-making process.

  5. Objections to evolution - Wikipedia

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    Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification from a single common ancestor in a process driven by natural selection) initially met opposition from scientists with different ...

  6. Group development - Wikipedia

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    Conflict: Conflict is a necessary part of a group's development. Conflict allows the group to evaluate ideas and it helps the group conformity and groupthink: Consensus: Conflict ends in the consensus stage, when group members compromise, select ideas, and agree on alternatives. Closure

  7. Group cohesiveness - Wikipedia

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    Levels of trust are higher in countries with lower economic inequality.. Group cohesiveness, also called group cohesion or social cohesion, is the degree or strength of bonds linking members of a social group to one another and to the group as a whole. [1]

  8. Conflict thesis - Wikipedia

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    The conflict thesis is a historiographical approach in the history of science that originated in the 19th century with John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White.It maintains that there is an intrinsic intellectual conflict between religion and science, and that it inevitably leads to hostility.

  9. Attribution bias - Wikipedia

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    Research on attribution biases is founded in attribution theory, which was proposed to explain why and how people create meaning about others' and their own behavior.This theory focuses on identifying how an observer uses information in his/her social environment in order to create a causal explanation for events.