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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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.

belief

Psychology; Social psychology

An estimate of the probability that something is true.

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.