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The social salience of an individual in a group is defined both by individual salient attributes and comparison with the attributes of other members of the group. As with the salience of objects, the social salience of an individual in a group depends on the attributes of the other members of that group.
Salience (also called saliency, from Latin saliō meaning “leap, spring” [1]) is the property by which some thing stands out.Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the pertinent (that is, salient) subset of the sensory data available to them.
In psychology and cognitive science, a memory bias is a cognitive bias that either enhances or impairs the recall of a memory (either the chances that the memory will be recalled at all, or the amount of time it takes for it to be recalled, or both), or that alters the content of a reported memory. There are many types of memory bias, including:
Salience (language), the property of being noticeable or important; Salience (neuroscience), the perceptual quality by which an observable thing stands out relative to its environment; Social salience, in social psychology, a set of reasons which draw an observer's attention toward a particular object
[27] [28] Several different techniques exist for nudging, including defaults, social-proof heuristics, and increasing the salience of the desired option. A default option is the option that person automatically receives for doing nothing. People are more likely to choose a particular option if it is the default option. [25]
Salience is then an important concept in several theories relating to Social Influence. Some areas of Communication and Social Psychology research that include the concept of salience as a component of their theory are: Persuasion Theory, Vested Interest, Summation Theory of Attitude Change, Group Salience, and Social Presence Theory.
In social psychology, ... A 2006 meta-analysis found little support for a related bias, ... Salience of the actor.
Self-categorization theory is a theory in social psychology that describes the circumstances under which a person will perceive collections of people (including themselves) as a group, as well as the consequences of perceiving people in group terms. [1]