social psychology

noun

1. the psychological study of social behavior, especially of the reciprocal influence of the individual and the group with which the individual interacts.

social psychology

noun

1. psychol the area of psychology concerned with the interaction between individuals and groups and the effect of society on behaviour

Word History and Origins

Origin of social psychology¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

For example, it examines social psychology data on how to influence public opinion about animals in a way that actually leads to behavior change.

From Vox

I always say that if experimental social psychology had been a business, it would have been famous for great research-and-development units.

From Freakonomics

It’s also 200 pages longer than the original, and includes a slew of recent findings from behavioral and social psychology.

From Freakonomics

Nick Hopkins, a professor of social psychology at the University of Dundee in Scotland, did a study that looked at a Hindu festival in northern India.

From Washington Post

But it is definitive of American governance today and the social psychology behind it.

From The Daily Beast

And it seems that this is what the social psychology profession is rewarding.

From The Daily Beast

The Times piece strongly suggests that the field of social psychology was leaving the doors wide open and a "Welcome, Burglars!"

From The Daily Beast

And the new Basic and Applied Social Psychology study suggests we may not have seen the worst of this bias yet.

From The Daily Beast

Academics around the country—at Yale, Stanford, UCLA, and other top universities—study the social psychology of racial bias.

From The Daily Beast

They open up issues in social psychology, and interact with the enquiries of educational science.

From Project Gutenberg

In short, the primary facts of social psychology center about collective habit, custom.

From Project Gutenberg

The prior discussion has tried to show why the psychology of habit is an objective and social psychology.

From Project Gutenberg

It sounds academic to say that substantial bettering of social relations waits upon the growth of a scientific social psychology.

From Project Gutenberg

Responsibility as a phenomenon of social psychology is obvious, educative, inescapable, and admirable.

From Project Gutenberg