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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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public self-consciousness
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to be aware of the publicly displayed aspects of the self.
overconfidence phenomenon
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to be more confident than correct to overestimate the accuracy of one's beliefs.
mere exposure effect
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to develop more positive feelings toward objects and individuals the more we are exposed to them.
false consensus bias
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to exaggerate how common one's own characteristics and opinions are in the general population.
hindsight bias
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out. Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.
representativeness heuristic
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to judge the category membership of people based on how closely they match the "typical" or "average" member of that category.
Sub-categories
- Behavior analysis (11155)
- Emotions (46)
- Feelings and states (263)
- General psychology (27052)
- Psychological disorders (166)
- Social psychology (356)