Social Psychology

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13 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Social Psychology.

• Communal reinforcement — A social-belief process in which repeated endorsement within a community increases a claim's familiarity, credibility and acceptance independently of adequate external evidence.
• Correspondent inference theory — A social-attribution theory explaining when observers infer a stable disposition from another person’s intentional action.
• Heuristic-systematic model of information processing — A dual-process persuasion model in which people assess messages through effortful systematic analysis, low-effort heuristic cues or both.
• Insufficient justification — A cognitive-dissonance effect in which a small external reward or mild threat leaves too little external explanation for counter-attitudinal behavior, encouraging internal attitude change.
• Internalized oppression — A process by which members of a subordinated group absorb dominant negative beliefs, norms and status judgments about their own group and reproduce them in self-concept, behavior or relations within the group.
• Masking (behavior) — Strategic or habitual suppression, substitution and rehearsal of visible behavior to reduce social penalty or appear to satisfy surrounding norms, often at cognitive and emotional cost.
• Norm of reciprocity — A social norm that calls for returning benefits with benefits and responding to harms or refusals in a correspondingly contingent manner.
• Pygmalion effect — A proposed expectancy effect in which another person's higher expectations contribute to improved performance through changed attention, opportunity, feedback or treatment.
• Scrooge effect — A proposed terror-management effect in which mortality salience increases prosocial or generous behavior when such behavior affirms culturally valued meaning and symbolic continuity.
• Self-persuasion — An indirect influence process in which people generate their own arguments or commitments for a conclusion and consequently change attitudes more durably than after passive receipt of advocacy.
• Social trap — A collective-action structure in which individually attractive short-term behavior produces worse long-term outcomes for participants or the group.
• System justification theory — A social-psychological theory that people can be motivated to defend and legitimize prevailing social arrangements even when those arrangements disadvantage them or their group.
• Ultimate Attribution Error — An intergroup attribution bias that treats an outgroup’s negative acts and an ingroup’s positive acts as disposition-revealing while explaining away outgroup positives and ingroup negatives as exceptional, lucky, effortful, or situational.