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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The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others.

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

The way a question or an issue is posed; framing can influence people’s decisions and expressed opinions. Eg: 30% fat vs 70% leans.

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

Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants to a certain stimulate. Eg: electric shock.

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

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

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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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