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The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.  We construct our social reality  Our social intuitions are often powerful but sometimes perilous  Social influences shape our behavior, often outside our awareness  Personal attitudes and dispositions can shape behavior  But attitudes and dispositions are subject to social influence  Social behavior is also biological behavior  Social psychology’s principles are applicable to everyday life and other disciplines

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Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity accordingly.

Domain: Psychology; Category: 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”.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

In social psychology, the post experimental explanation of a study to its participants. Debriefing usually disclose any deception and often queries participants regarding their understandings and ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

In research, an effect by which participants are misinformed or misled about the study’s methods and purposes.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

These are variables that are hypothesized to be affected by the IVs and the PVs. The experimenter believes that this variable depends on the levels of the IVs or PVs. These are also known as the ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

Differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (controlled) attitudes toward the same object. Verbalized explicit attitudes any change with education and persuasion; implicit attitudes change slowly, ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

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Great Blossary. This would be great for another architects terminology Blossary. We can't stop ourselves from dropping a few psychology terms into discussions.

03:38, 28 January 2015
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