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/sˈoʊʃəl saɪkˈɑlədʒi/ Listen

Social psychology

noun

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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"Social psychology" Quotes from Famous Books

... American society with its vast spaces, its sections equal to European nations, its geographic influences, its brief period of development, its variety of nationalities and races, its extraordinary industrial growth under the conditions of freedom, its institutions, culture, ideals, social psychology, and even its religions forming and changing almost under his eyes, one of the richest fields ever offered for the preliminary recognition and study of the forces that operate and interplay in the making ...

— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner

... of speaking, if this purposive analysis of a character is often called psychological. In a stricter sense of the word, it is not psychological. If the historian really were to take the psychological attitude, he would make of history simply a social psychology, seeking the laws of the social mind, and treating the individual, the hero, and the leader, merely as the crossing-point of psychological law. For such a psychological view the mental life of the hero would not be more important or more interesting than the mental life of ...

— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg

Words linked to "Social psychology" : psychology, psychological science, psychodynamics