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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
group think
Psychology; Social psychology
Mode of thinking that occurs when desire for unanimity in a decision making group overrides realistic appraisal of the situation.
self serving bias
Psychology; Social psychology
When we take credit for our successes by attributing them to internal factors, but we distance ourselves from our failures by attributing them to external causes.
reactance
Psychology; Social psychology
(1) a motive to protect or restore one's sense of freedom. Reactance arises when someone threatens our freedom of action. (2) The desire to assert one's sense of freedom.
racism
Psychology; Social psychology
(1) an individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a ...
sexism
Psychology; Social psychology
(1) an individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given sex, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a ...
social facilitation
Psychology; Social psychology
(1) original meaning-the tendency of people to perform simple or well-learned tasks better when others are present (2) current meaning-strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses owing to ...
illusory correlation
Psychology; Social psychology
(1) Perception of a relationship where none exists, or perception of a stronger relationship than actually exists. (2) A false impression that two variables correlate.
