Superstition and Black Cat
Definition: 1. Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings. 2. A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice...
Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any physical process linking the two events, such as astrology, omens, witchcraft, etc., that contradicts natural science.
Population:
1. All the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country. 2. A particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country.
Society:
|The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. |
|The community of people living in a particular region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations. |
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Social psychology:
Branch of psychology concerned with the personality, attitudes, motivations, and behaviour of the individual or group in the context of social interaction. The field emerged in the U.S. in the 1920s. Topics include the attribution of social status based on perceptual cues, the influence of social factors (such as peers) on a person's attitudes and beliefs, the functioning of small groups and large organizations, and the dynamics of face-to-face interactions.
Attitude:
An attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event (the attitude object). Prominent psychologist Gordon Allport once described attitudes "the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary social psychology."[1]
In lay language, attitude may refer to
Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any physical process linking the two events, such as astrology, omens, witchcraft, etc., that contradicts natural science.
Population:
1. All the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country. 2. A particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country.
Society:
|The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. |
|The community of people living in a particular region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations. |
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Social psychology:
Branch of psychology concerned with the personality, attitudes, motivations, and behaviour of the individual or group in the context of social interaction. The field emerged in the U.S. in the 1920s. Topics include the attribution of social status based on perceptual cues, the influence of social factors (such as peers) on a person's attitudes and beliefs, the functioning of small groups and large organizations, and the dynamics of face-to-face interactions.
Attitude:
An attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event (the attitude object). Prominent psychologist Gordon Allport once described attitudes "the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary social psychology."[1]
In lay language, attitude may refer to