Social Psychology

FAE/Fundamental Attribution Error

When someone else fails and you assume a person characteristic based on that action, not considering situational aspects.

Mere Exposure Effect

The more you are exposed to something the more you begin to like it

Norms

Unwritten rules in society

Factors for Attraction

Physical attractiveness, similarity, proximity

Collectivist culture

Putting others over yourself

Individualistic culture

Putting yourself other others

Pessimistic Explanatory style

Internal (it’s just me), stable (I’ll continue to fail), global (I‘m bad at everything)

Optimistic explanatory style

External (not just my fault), unstable (it’s just this time), specific (only bad at this one thing)

Actor-observer effect

You and another person fail at something but your is situational and theirs is dispositional

Self-serving bias

Accepting success and rejecting/giving out failure

Self-effacing bias

Accepting failure and rejecting success

Internal Locus of Control

Positive, I can do something to improve or to ensure success and will act on it

External Locus of Control

Bad to do, nothing I can do will help, it is based on luck

Just World Phenomenon

Blaming the victim, if something bad happens they must have done something to deserve it

Belief perseverance

Belief in something free it is completely disputed

Confirmation bias

Believing one thing and ignoring the other side, researching only about your argument

Self fulfilling prophecy

1. Believe something will happen

2. Behave accordingly to the belief

3. Belief comes true

Relative deprivation

Being happy with what you have until you see someone with something better, jealousy

Dispositional attributions

Internal and personal qualities and characteristics

Situational attributions

External, environmental, other people’s faults