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

Domain: Psychology; Category: Social psychology

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

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

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

Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity accordingly.

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

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

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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