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| a broad field of psychology that seeks to explain how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors are influenced by interactions with others |
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| a subfield of social psychology that focuses on cognitive processes and how we perceive, store, and retrieve information about social interactions |
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| the distance of one person to another person |
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| the ability of a person or participant to interest or expose another to new ideas and experiences |
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| the ability of a person or participant to help another achieve his or her goals |
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| the ability of a person to provide another person with sympathy, encouragement, and approval |
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| the attraction that often develops between opposite types of people because of the ability of one to supply what the other lacks |
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| an unpleasant psychological state characterized by a vague, generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger |
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| the tendency to form opinions about others based on first impressions |
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| the knowledge or assumptions we develop about a person or event |
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| the belief that one's own culture is superior |
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| blaming a victim so we can continue to think the world is basically just |
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| a set of assumptions about people in a given category, often based on lies or half-truths |
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| how we interpret the cause of other people's behavior |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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| we underestimate the impact of situational factors and overestimate the impact of personal factors when looking at how others act |
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| we think others' actions are a result of their personality, but attribute our own behavior to the environment |
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| the tendency to view one's successes as stemming from internal factors and one's failures as stemming from external factors |
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| conveying messages using space, body language, and facial expression |
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