social psychology

Noun

Meaning

the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole

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Synonyms

sociology anthropology parapsychology psychometrics clinical psychology social anthropology psychological warfare behavioral science applied psychology behavioristic psychology behavioral psychology general psychology similar psychology technical psychology major psychology
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Hypernyms

psychology psychological science

Hyponyms

psychodynamics

Examples

I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect. Jürgen Habermas

Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don't know it. Daniel Levitin

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member. George Herbert Mead

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. Ferdinand de Saussure

Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward. Alfie Kohn

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology. George Herbert Mead

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