What is Social psychology?
[[File:Soc-psych-scope.gif|285px|thumb|right|The scope of social psychological research. Adapted from Cote and Levine (2002).<ref>Cote, J. E. & Levine, C. G. (2002). ''[[Identity formation, agency, and culture]]''. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.</ref>]] '''Social [[psychology]]''' studies how people and groups interact. Social psychologists might [[Analysis|analyze]] an [[individual]], a [[group]], or both.<ref>{{cite book| last = Myers| first = David G.| title = Social psychology| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hrydA45eCk0C| year = 1993| publisher = McGraw-Hill| isbn = 978-0-07-044292-4 }}</ref> [[Psychologist|Psychologists]] and [[Sociology|sociologists]] who [[research]] social psychology tend to differ in their goals, approaches, [[method]]<nowiki/>s, and [[terminology]]. They also favor separate [[academic]] [[journal]]s and [[professional]] groups. Sociologists and psychologists collaborated best right after [[World War II]].<ref>Sewell, W. H. (1989). Some reflections on the golden age of interdisciplinary social psychology. ''Annual Review of Sociology'', Vol. 15.</ref> In recent years, these two disciplines have become more [[wiktionary:specialized#Adjective|specialized]], but they still have some similarities.<ref>{{cite book| last = Flick| first = Uwe| title = The Psychology of the Social| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Nvz5Y8e1N84C| year = 1998| publisher = Cambridge University Press| isbn = 978-0-521-58851-5 }}</ref> ==Related pages== *[[Cognitive psychology]] *[[Erich Fromm]] *[[Sociology]] == References == {{wikiversity}} {{wiktionary}} {{reflist}} [[Category:Branches of psychology]] {{Sci-stub}}