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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Created by: tim.zhaotianqi

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These are variables that are hypothesized to cause an effect, but are characteristics of the participants and not something to which they can easily be randomly assigned.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

Thinking too highly of one’s self, while thinking less of others (even or especially one’s relationship partner).

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations. *not good in lab.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

The concept of giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity In terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

These are variables that are hypothesized to cause an effect. Participants are usually randomly assigned to the various levels of the Independent Variable.

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

The human tendency to underestimate the speed and the strength of the “psychological immune system”, which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen.

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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