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social psychology

social psychology

4 4.1
It studies how people think, feel, and act around others
  • noun
  • /ˈsoʊʃəl saɪˈkɒlədʒi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : psicología social
  • Social psychology examines how group dynamics impact individual behavior.
  • social psychology research
  • experimental social psychology
  • social psychology literature

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Examples

  • Milgram's obedience research speaks to many issues in social psychology and is relevant to the present research in several ways.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The next section contrasts how scholars in political science and social psychology study stereotypes.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The current work may serve to elaborate on this area of social psychology.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Identifying the relevant social psychology research followed a slightly different approach.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Data from this sample should allow for an examination of the social psychology of people in the field of policing.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Modern social psychology has been finding the same thing with people's relationships to strangers that that affects health.

  • All the subjects were undergraduates in a second-year social psychology course at Murdoch University, Western Australia.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The 102 participants in the experiments were enrolled in an undergraduate social psychology course at Murdoch University in Western Australia.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Testing the automaticity of stereotypes in social psychology showed the incredible flexibility of these supposedly rigid associations.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Students learn about the influence of social psychology on their daily interactions.

Surface Forms

Morphology

social + psychology

The meaning is directly and transparently composed from 'social' (relating to society/others) + 'psychology' (the study of mind and behavior), yielding the field that examines social influences on thought and behavior. This modifier+field pattern is common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

Social psychology joins social (about other people) and psychology (the study of the mind). Imagine a person who changes how they think or behave when other people are nearby; that's why the term means the study of how people think, feel, and act 'around others'.