social psychology

• social influence: study of effects situational factors and other people have on an individual's behavior
• social psychologist: the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another; how the same person will act differently in different situations
• attribution theory: attribute the behavior to a person's stable, enduring trait or situation
• fundamental attribution error: tend to blame or credit the person more than the situation
• actor-observer bias: how we explain our own behavior; overestimate external factors in our own behaviors and overestimate internal factors in the behavior of others
• just- world bias: believe life is fair, people get what they deserve and deserve what they get
• blaming the victim: when someone is a victim of a wrongful situation and you blame what happened on the person and not on the situation
• attitudes: feelings that predispose our reactions to objects, people, or events
• modesty bias (aka self-effacing bias): involves blaming failure on internal, personal factors while attributing success to external, situational factors