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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
leader
Psychology; Social psychology
The person who exerts the most influence on group behavior and beliefs.
complementarity
Psychology; Social psychology
The popularly supposed tendency, in a relationship between two people, for each to complete what is missing in the other. The questionable complementarity hypothesis proposes that people attract ...
physical-attractiveness stereotype
Psychology; Social psychology
The presumption that physically attractive people possess other socially desirable traits as well: What is beautiful is good.
individualism
Psychology; Social psychology
A philosophy of life stressing the priority of individual needs over group needs, a preference for loosely knit social relationships, and a desire to be relatively autonomous of others' influence.
debriefing
Psychology; Social psychology
A procedure at the conclusion of a research session in which participants are given full information about the nature and hypotheses of the study.
informed consent
Psychology; Social psychology
A procedure by which people freely choose to participate in a study only after they are told about the activities they will perform.
