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 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”.