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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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

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

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

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.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

Studies that seek clues to cause- effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them constant).

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

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

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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