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Psychology

The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.

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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.