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In social psychology, superficiality refers to a lack of depth in relationships, conversation and analysis. The principle of "superficiality versus depth"[1] is said to have pervaded Western culture since at least the time of Plato.[2] Social psychology considers that in everyday life, social processing veers between superficiality and a deeper form of processing.