Psychiatry Conference 2023

Social Psychology

Social psychology is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all of the psychological variables that are measurable in a human being. The approaches to the field focuses on the individual, and attempts to explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by other people.
Social psychology has a significant impact not only on the academic worlds of psychology, sociology, and the social sciences in general, but has also influenced public understanding and expectation of human social behaviour. Social psychology bridges the interest of psychology with. Most social psychologists are trained within the discipline of psychology. Psychologically oriented researchers place a great deal of emphasis on the immediate social situation, and the interaction between person and situation variables.

• Applied Social Psychology
• Critical Social Psychology
• Sociological Social Psychology
• Community Psychology
• Consumer Psychology
• Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Cultural Psychology
   

Some social psychology topics are:

• Antisocial Behavior
• Attitudes
• Control
• Decision Making
• Emotions
• Group
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Personality
• Prejudice
• Prosocial Behavior
• Self
• Social Cognition
• Social Influence