Social psychology - study of how people influence behavior and mental processes in social situations, attribution theory - two ways our brain seeks to explain someone’s behavior: their personality (internal) or their circumstances (external), Internal attribution - explain the cause of a situation or event to personal factors, External attribution: - explain the cause of the situation to outside circumstances, fundamental attribution error - explain other's behavior to internal problems, but our own to external problems, just-world hypothesis - This theory basically states that everyone gets what they deserve; leads to "blaming the victim", Self-serving bias - good behavior is do to our personality, but bad behavior to our bad situation, false-consensus effect - see our beliefs/behaviors as common, but others as deviant/rare, confirmation bias - tendency to research info that we agree with , halo effect - If we think someone is good, we see only good in them and ignore bad, Collective cultures - create self-concepts that are more interdependent (relying on others), Individualistic cultures - emphasis on self-identity, personal achievement, and unique characteristics, self-fulfilling prophecy - outcome of a situation being influenced by our thinking, either positively or negatively,

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