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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.

Contributors in Social psychology

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.

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