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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
Social neuroscience
Psychology; Social psychology
An interdisciplinary field that explores the neural bases of social and emotional processes and behaviors, and how these processes and behaviors affect our brain and biology.
Hindsight bias
Psychology; Social psychology
The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen it. Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. Important for test preparation.
Culture
Psychology; Social psychology
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
Social representations
Psychology; Social psychology
A society’s widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world.
Experimental research
Psychology; Social psychology
Studies that seek clues to cause- effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them constant).
Correlation and causations
Psychology; Social psychology
When two variables correlate, any combination of three explanations is possible. Either one may cause the other, or both may be affected by an underlying “third factor”.
Random sampling
Psychology; Social psychology
Survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion.
