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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
internal attribution
Psychology; Social psychology
An attribution that locates the cause of an event to factors internal to the person, such as personality traits, moods, attitudes, abilities, or effort.
availability heuristic
Psychology; Social psychology
An efficient but fallible rule-of-thumb that judges the likelihood of things in terms of their availability in memory. If instances of something come readily to mind, we presume it to be commonplace.
anxious/ambivalent attachment style
Psychology; Social psychology
An expectation about social relationships characterized by a concern that others will not return affection.
secure attachment style
Psychology; Social psychology
An expectation about social relationships characterized by trust, a lack of concern with being abandoned, and a feeling of being valued and well liked.
social-responsibility norm
Psychology; Social psychology
An expectation that people will help those dependent upon them.
reciprocity norm
Psychology; Social psychology
An expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them.
