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Downward Comparison Principles in Social Psychology

, 1981
The literature of social psychology contains a number of phenomena that appear to be paradoxical. For example, persons who face a threatening experience prefer to affiliate with threatened others rather than with nonthreatened others (Schachter, 1959 ...
T. Wills
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Psychology, Sociology, and Social Psychology

2022
Psychology and sociology are two separate but closely related social science disciplines. Psychology is currently defined as “the scientific investigation of mental processes (thinking, remembering, feeling, etc.) and behavior.” Psychologists study the subjects such as sensation, perception, learning, memory, thinking, consciousness, motivation ...
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Social Psychology

J. Delamater, J. Collett, Steven Hitlin
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Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology

, 1987
Arguing and Thinking is an entertaining and scholarly exposition of ideas of rhetoric - from Classical times to the nineteenth century - viewed as social psychological theories. It is self-confessedly unorthodox.
M. Billig
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Social psychology of creativity: A consensual assessment technique.

, 1982
Although personality research has made much progress in developing an individual-difference psychology of creativity, the nature of this phenomenon can only be fully illuminated if a social psychology of creativity is developed as well.
T. M. Amabile
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and social cognition.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2017
In this editorial, the new incoming editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP)addresses the upcoming challenges and the issue of replicability.
S. Kitayama
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Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology

, 2011
The Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology is an essential resource for researchers and students of social psychology and related disciplines.
P. Lange, A. Kruglanski, E. Higgins
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The Social in Social Psychology

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2014
AbstractIn this paper, I make a critical plea for the rehabilitation of the theoretical conception of the intrinsically social dimensions of cognition, emotion, and behavior shared by early social psychologists but progressively neglected and abandoned in the last century.
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Is Psychology a Social Science?

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, 2010
This presentation explicates the rationale for the claim that, contrary to the general opinion, psychology is not a social science. Sociology, the typical social science to represent all the others, starts from observing human behavior in the context of human relationships and abstracts from the samples of such behaviors the social rules governing ...
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Social psychology

Revision Notes for MRCPsych Paper 1, 2022
Sarah Jawad, Wendy Burn
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