A to Z
All psychology concepts, A to Z
Every concept in the index, in alphabetical order. Pick an entry for a short explanation and a list of primary sources.
All entries
- Acquiescence bias
- Affect misattribution procedure
- Amygdala
- Anchoring and adjustment
- Anterior cingulate cortex
- Attachment theory
- Attitudinal ambivalence
- Babyface overgeneralization effect
- Belief in free will
- Broaden-and-build theory
- Challenge and threat appraisals
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive-experiential self-theory
- Compartmentalization model of self-structure
- Confirmation bias
- Construal level theory
- Costly signaling theory
- Counterfactual thinking
- Crowne and Marlowe Social Desirability Scale
- Discursive psychology
- Disrupt-then-reframe
- Dogmatism
- Dopamine
- Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
- Effort-recovery model
- Ego depletion
- Environmental dynamism
- Evaluative conditioning
- Fit indices for structural equation modeling
- Five factor model of personality
- Generational cohort theory
- Goal orientation
- Group brainstorming and creativity
- Illusory correlations
- Implementation intentions
- Integrative complexity
- Investing effort
- Ironic rebound effect
- Job embeddedness
- Life history theory
- Maximizing versus satisficing
- Meaning maintenance model
- Measures of emotional intelligence
- Measures of psychopathy
- Mindfulness
- Mood as input
- Narcissism
- Need for closure
- Nostalgia
- Opponent process theory
- Orbitofrontal cortex, future and empathy
- Organismic integration theory
- Organizational citizenship behavior
- Procedures to examine the causes and consequences of meaning
- Properties of excellent qualitative reports
- Psychological constructs
- Psychological reactance theory
- Reading psychology research
- Regulatory focus theory
- Right-wing authoritarianism
- Savanna-IQ interaction hypothesis
- Schizotypy
- Self-affirmation theory
- Self-determination theory
- Self-expansion model
- Self-validation hypothesis
- Sensory processing sensitivity
- Set point theory
- Signature effect
- Social dominance theory
- Social exchange theory
- Social identity threat
- Social role theory
- Somatic marker hypothesis
- Superior temporal sulcus
- Symbolic self-completion theory
- System justification theory
- Temporal discounting
- Terror management theory
- The dualistic model of passion
- The planning fallacy
- The rational choice theory of terrorism
- The sociometer hypothesis
- Theory of planned behavior
- Third-person effect
- Uncertainty intensification hypothesis
- Unconscious goals
- Unconscious thought theory
- Unintuitive findings: performance and creativity