Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others...

social psychology, reciprocity is a social norm of responding to a positive action with another positive action, rewarding kind actions. As a social construct...

feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social sciences. Biological...

In sociology, social psychology (also known as sociological social psychology) studies the relationship between the individual and society. Although studying...

Scarcity, in the area of social psychology, works much like scarcity in the area of economics. Scarcity is basically how people handle satisfying themselves...

more collectivist approach to social psychology of the self and social groups. Social identity theory states that social behaviour will want a person to...

community practice, ecological psychology, environmental psychology, critical psychology, cross-cultural psychology, social psychology, political science, public...

value than hunger. In social psychology, drive theory was used by Robert Zajonc in 1965 as an explanation of the phenomenon of social facilitation. The audience...

In the field of personality psychology, Machiavellianism (sometimes abbreviated as MACH) is the name of a personality trait construct characterized by...

20th century, the empirical study of attitudes was at the core of social psychology. Attitudes can be derived from affective information (feelings), cognitive...

language acquisition, social change, personality, emotional development, self-concept, and identity formation. Developmental psychology examines the influences...

dimension in human personality theory. The terms were introduced into psychology by Carl Jung, though both the popular understanding and current psychological...

Look up social psychology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Social psychology is a subfield of psychology, studying the mentality of the individual...

some point in the 1970s this term ["identity"] was borrowed from social psychology and applied with abandon to societies, nations and groups." Erik Erikson...

Quetelet. Comte endeavored to unify history, psychology, and economics through the scientific understanding of social life. Writing shortly after the malaise...

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to...

social psychology have roots in research done within the field of cognitive psychology. Social cognition is a specific sub-set of social psychology that...

linguistics, management science, communication science, psychology and political science. Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those used in the...

Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective that arose in the mid-20th century in answer to two theories: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory...

Journal of Abnormal Psychology (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology and Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology) is a peer-reviewed...

Guidelines for Forensic Psychologists reference several psychology subdisciplines, such as social, clinical, experimental, counseling, and neuropsychology...

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association that...

Attribution is a term used in psychology which deals with how individuals perceive the causes of everyday experience, as being either external or internal...

In social psychology, social defeat is the negative experience of being excluded from the majority group. The term is used in the study of the physiological...

Ph.D., which he received in 1942. Leon Festinger made his mark in social psychology by teaching the importance of scientific experimentation while challenging...

Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning. The study of learning processes, from both cognitive...

Crowd psychology (also mob psychology) is a branch of social psychology that deals with the ways in which the psychology of a crowd is different from the...

Self-knowledge is a term used in psychology to describe the information that an individual draws upon when finding answers to the questions "What am I...

Gestalt psychology, gestaltism, or configurationism is a school of psychology and a theory of perception that emphasises the processing of entire patterns...

2009). "Collective narcissism and its social consequences" (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 97 (6): 1074–1096. doi:10.1037/a0016904...