Social psychology

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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observational learning

Psychology; Social psychology

Learning by watching the actions of others and noting that subsequent rewards they receive.

deindividuation

Psychology; Social psychology

Loss of self-awareness and evaluation apprehension; occurs in group situations that foster responsiveness to group norms, good or bad.

inferential statistics

Psychology; Social psychology

Mathematical analyses that move beyond mere description of research data to make inferences about the larger population from which the sample was drawn.

independence

Psychology; Social psychology

Not being subject to control by others.

descriptive statistics

Psychology; Social psychology

Numbers that summarize and describe the behavior or characteristics of a particular sample of participants in a study.

explanatory style

Psychology; Social psychology

One's habitual way of explaining life events. A negative, pessimistic, depressive explanatory style attributes failures to stable, global, and internal causes.