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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obedience

Psychology; Social psychology

The performance of an action in response to a direct order.

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.