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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

and behavioral therapy, with positive social support. In an article from the Association for Humanistic Psychology, the benefits of humanistic therapy are...

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

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

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

The psychology of social class is a branch of social psychology dedicated to understanding how social class affects individual's thoughts, feelings, and...

The Journal of Social Psychology is a bimonthly academic journal covering social psychology published by Routledge, who acquired it from Heldref Publications...

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

Current views of the Self in psychology position it as playing an integral part in human motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity. It may be the...

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

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

of social psychology known as "crowd psychology" or "mob psychology" examines how the psychology of a group of people differs from the psychology of any...

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

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

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

"Social Psychology" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American comedy television series Community. It aired in the United States on NBC...

Social psychology utilizes a wide range of specific theories for various kinds of social and cognitive phenomena. Here is a sampling of some of the more...