Home > Blossary: Social Psychology
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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Proposes that people exhibit self-protective emotional and cognitive responses (including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews and prejudices) when confronted with reminders of their ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

The belief that others are paying more attention to our appearance and behavior than they really are.

Domain: Psychology; Category: 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.

Domain: Psychology; Category: 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.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

Beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self- eg: athletic; overweight; smart; etc.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

Survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

The process of assigning participants to the conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being a give condition.

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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