Blossary – Social Psychology

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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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Experimental research

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

Hindsight bias

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.

Social representations

A society’s widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world.

Culture

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

Social neuroscience

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.