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Social psychology
A field in psychology focusing on how people's thoughts, feelings, and behavior change when in the presence of others compared to when they are alone.
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Social psychology
own-race bias
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race.
foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.
depressive realism
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency of mildly depressed people to make accurate rather than self-serving judgments, attributions, and predictions.
just-world phenomenon
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency of people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.
adaptation-level phenomenon
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to adapt to a given level of stimulation and thus to notice and react to changes from that level.
self-serving bias
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to assign an internal locus of causality for our positive outcomes and an external locus for our negative outcomes.
private self-consciousness
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to be aware of the covert, private aspects of the self.
