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His treatment of the contributions of Kurt Lewin, whom he rightly identified as the most important shaper of modern experimental social psychology—and the groundbreaking work of Leon Festinger, whose discrepancy reduction model (borrowed from Lewin’s tension-system concept) was applied to both pressures toward uniformity within groups and ...
- Lee Ross
Carr and colleagues 21 argue that psychology is relevant in developing countries and present a developmental view of social psychology that is neither “historicist” nor “universalist” as the dominant theories are classified. They outline five “discernible modes of social psychology in the Malawian context” 20, p.178.
- Chiwoza Bandawe
- 2010
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Jun 1, 2010 · What emerges clearly is that social psychology is seen as having the central task of explaining how the ways in which the authors think and behave is affected by interaction between people. Social psychology has been defined as “a branch of psychology that is concerned with those aspects of mental life which relate to social interaction and social phenomena in general” 1. Hewstone defines ...
This chapter is organized around six historical periods, catalogued imprecisely according to major research trends that defined the era and distinguished it from preceding periods. These developments reflect far more research and many more contributors than can be mentioned in a brief chapter such as this. For that reason, I emphasize contributions that played pivotal roles in the evolution of ...
- Harry T. Reis
- 2010
This chapter represents a history, rather than the history of social psychology, an account of contributions, problems, insights, and events seen through the particular interpretive lenses of its authors. The chapter includes five sections, each of which includes various subsections: The first section discusses three major themes in our field's approach to research: (a) the normative power of ...
- Lee Ross, Mark Lepper, Andrew Ward
- 2010
Jun 30, 2010 · In his classic Handbook of Social Psychology chapter, Jones (1985) offered a particularly comprehensive account of five decades of social psychology, beginning with the late 1930s. His treatment of the contributions of Kurt Lewin, whom he rightly identified as the most important shaper of modern experimental social psychology—and the groundbreaking work of Leon Festinger, whose discrepancy ...
Malawi Medical Journal; 22(2) 34-37: June 2010 A brief history of Social Psychology and its contribution to health in Malawi Chiwoza Bandawe1,2 1.Department of Mental Health, College of Medicine 2.Department of Physchology,University of Cape Town Social psychology has been deined as “a branch of psychology that is concerned with those aspects of mental life which relate to social interaction ...
