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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self-serving bias self-serving attributions

Psychology; Social psychology

Self-serving bias: the tendency to perceive oneself favorably. Self-serving attributions: a form of self-serving bias; the tendency to attribute positive outcomes to oneself and negative outcomes to ...

defensive pessimism

Psychology; Social psychology

The adaptive value of anticipating problems and harnessing one’s anxiety to motivate effective action. Eg: save those under unrealistic optimism.

false uniqueness effect

Psychology; Social psychology

The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one’s abilities and one’s desirable or successful behavior.

group-serving bias

Psychology; Social psychology

Explaining away out-group members’ positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions (while excusing such behavior by one’s own group).

physiognomy

Psychology; Social psychology

Physiognomy is the assessment of a person's character or personality from his or her outer appearance, especially the face. The term can also refer to the general appearance of a person, object, or ...

types of friends

Sociology; General sociology

Ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree that one of the keys to happiness is strong relationships with other people. We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to ...