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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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learned helplessness
Psychology; Social psychology
The sense of hopelessness and resignation learned when a human or animal perceives no control over repeated bad events.
Cocktail Party Effect
Psychology; Social psychology
The cocktail party effect is the phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much the same way that a party-goer ...
Spotlight Effect
Psychology; Social psychology
The spotlight effect is the phenomenon in which people tend to believe they are noticed more than they really are. Being that one is constantly in the center of one's own world, an accurate ...
