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Social cognition
Social cognition is the
study of how people process
social information,
especially its encoding,
storage, retrieval, and
application to social
situations. There has been
much recent interest in the
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Cognitive bias
A cognitive bias is any of a
wide range of observer
effects identified in
cognitive science and social
psychology including very
basic statistical, social
attribution, and memory
errors that are common to
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Self image
A person's self image is the
mental picture, generally of
a kind that is quite
resistant to change, that
depicts not only details
that are potentially
available to objective
investigation by others
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Attribution theory
Attribution theory is a
field of social psychology,
which was born out of the
theoritical models of Fritz
Heider, Harold Kelley,
Edward E. Jones, and Lee
Ross. Attribution theory is
concerned with the ways in
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Exposure effect
Exposure effect is a psychological artifact well known to advertisers: people express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. This effect has been nicknamed the ... > more -
Cooperation
Cooperation or co-operation, refers to the practice of people or greater entities working in common with commonly agreed upon goals and possibly methods, instead of working separately in competition. ... > more -
Illusion of control
Illusion of control is the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes that they demonstrably have no influence over. The predominant paradigm in research on ... > more -
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive Psychology is the school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max ... > more -
Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of progressive psychological changes that occur in human beings as they age. Originally concerned with infants and children, and later other periods ... > more -
Psychopathology
Psychopathology is a term which refers to either the study of mental illness or mental distress or the manifestation of behaviours and experiences which may be indicative of mental illness or ... > more -
Inferiority complex
An inferiority complex, in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, is a feeling that one is inferior to others in some way. It is often unconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals ... > more
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