SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Author: Jagdish C. Parikh

Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviours include all of the psychological variables that are measurable in a human being. Social psychology research topics include social influence, social perception, social interaction and group Behaviour. Now that you have a better understanding of what social psychology is, we are going to look at some of the major topics that social psychologists investigate in their research. Many of these topics are related to social influence, social perception and social interaction.

Contents: Introduction  The Scope and Relations of Social Psychology  Social Psychological Theories  The Attitudes and Personality  Psychology and Social Work Social Cognition  Human Behaviour & Major Depressive Disorder Integration of Personality in the Social Environment  Self Psychology  Contact Groups and Communication.

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