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The Field of Social Psychology | |
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How We Think about and Interact with Others | |
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Social Psychology: A Working Definition | |
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Social Psychology Is Scientific in Nature | |
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Social Psychology Focuses on the Behavior of Individuals | |
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Social Psychology Seeks to Understand the Causes of Social Behavior and Social Thought | |
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Social Psychology: Its Cutting Edge | |
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Cognition and Behavior: Two Sides of the Same Social Coin | |
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Social Neuroscience: Where Social Psychology and Neuroscience Meet | |
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The Role of Implicit (Nonconscious) Processes | |
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Taking Full Account of Social Diversity | |
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Answering Questions about Social Behavior and Social Thought: Research Methods in Social Psychology | |
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Understanding Research Methods: Whats in It for You | |
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Systematic Observation: Describing the World around Us | |
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Correlation: The Search for Relationships | |
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The Experimental Method: Knowledge through Systematic Intervention | |
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Interpreting Research Results: The Use of Statistics, and Social Psychologists as Perennial Skeptics | |
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The Role of Theory in Social Psychology | |
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The Quest for Knowledge and Rights of Individuals: Seeking an Appropriate Balance | |
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Summary and Review of Key Points | |
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Ideas to Take with You and Use! | |
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Key Terms | |
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Social Cognition | |
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Thinking about the Social World | |
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Schemas: Mental Frameworks for Organizing and Using Social Information | |
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The Impact of Schemas on Social Cognition: Attention, Encoding, Retrieval | |
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The Self-Confirming Nature of Schemas: When and Why Beliefs Shape Reality | |
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Heuristics and Automatic Processing: How We Reduce Our Effort in Social Cognition | |
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Representativeness: Judging by Resemblance | |
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Availability: If I Can Think of It, It Must Be Important | |
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Anchoring and Adjustment: Where You Begin Makes a Difference | |
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Automatic Processing in Social Thought: Saving Effort But at a Cost! | |
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Controlled versus Automatic Processing in Evaluating the Social World: Evidence from Social Neuroscience | |
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Potential Sources of Error in Social Cognition:Why Total Rationality Is Rarer Than You Think | |
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Negativity Bias: The Tendency to | |