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The scientific study of how the real or imagined presence of others influences thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
How other people affect an individual's thoughts, emotions, and actions
Influence from direct interaction with others
Influence from others even when they are not physically present
Gaining knowledge through observation and experimentation
Uses experiments and data rather than logic alone
Focuses on situational influences rather than traits
Studies individuals rather than institutions
Overemphasizing personality and underestimating situations
Common-sense beliefs that are often contradictory
Behavior is learned through environmental stimuli
How people interpret the social world
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Belief that we see the world objectively
Desire to be accurate
Desire to feel good about oneself
Accuracy vs feeling good
Desire to control outcomes
Situations strongly influence behavior
People naturally try to explain behavior
Believing events were predictable after they occur
Organized explanation of observations
Testable prediction
Describes behavior without manipulation
Studying a group from within
Examining existing records
Measures relationships between variables
Strength and direction of a relationship
Correlation cannot show cause
Manipulates variables to determine causality
Variable manipulated by researcher
Variable that is measured
Confidence IV caused the effect
Ability to generalize results
Participants randomly placed in conditions
Probability results occurred by chance
Repeating a study
Combining results of multiple studies
Research for knowledge
Research to solve problems
Committee ensuring ethical research
Participants agree knowingly
Misleading participants
Explaining study afterward
How people think about the social world
Fast, unconscious thinking
Slow, conscious thinking
Mental frameworks
Increasing accessibility of schemas
First information matters most
Expectations cause confirming behavior
Mental shortcuts
Judging by ease of recall
Judging by similarity
Statistical frequency
Imagining alternative pasts
Underestimating time to finish tasks