Chapter 12: Social Psychology
-The branch of psychology that studies how people think, feel, and behave in social situations
Social Cognition
-The mental process that people use to make sense out of their social environment
Person Perception
-influenced by; perceptions, goals, expectations, self perception
Physical Attractiveness
-“beautiful is good”
-really no difference between attractive and less attractive people in intelligence, happiness, and adjustment
-there are differences in loneliness, popularity, and anxiety in social situations.
Attribution
-process of inferring the causes of people’s behavior, including one’s own
-the explanation given for a particular behavior
Using Attributes as ways to Justify Injustice
-just world bias: a tendency to believe that life is fair
-just world bias leads to blaming the victim
Attitudes
What is an attitude?
-predisposition to evaluate some people, groups, or issues in a particular way
-has 3 components:......

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