# Social Psychology

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Category: Psychology
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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:06.090Z
Tags: psychology, social

## Summary

Social psychology is the experimental study of how people think, feel, and act in the actual or imagined presence of other people — conformity, obedience, attribution, prejudice, persuasion, the small alterations in behaviour caused by being watched. Key sections include: Social Psychology.; A first word What it can show.; Chapter I What it studies.; Chapter II Lewin and the postwar shift.; Chapter III The birth of group norms.; Chapter IV Asch's line studies.; Chapter V Milgram and obedience.; Chapter VI Milgram’s troubles.; Chapter VII Stanford prison.; Chapter VIII The crisis the field went through..

## Slide Outline

1. Social Psychology.
2. A first word What it can show.
3. Chapter I What it studies.
4. Chapter II Lewin and the postwar shift.
5. Chapter III The birth of group norms.
6. Chapter IV Asch's line studies.
7. Chapter V Milgram and obedience.
8. Chapter VI Milgram’s troubles.
9. Chapter VII Stanford prison.
10. Chapter VIII The crisis the field went through.
11. Chapter IX Cognitive dissonance.
12. Chapter X Bem and the alternative.
13. Chapter XI How we explain behaviour.
14. Chapter XII Tajfel and identity.
15. Chapter XIII Bandura's social learning.
16. Chapter XIV The bystander effect.
17. Chapter XV What groups do to thinking.
18. Chapter XVI How attitudes change.
19. Chapter XVII The compliance professionals.
20. Chapter XVIII What people say vs. what they do.
21. Chapter XIX The contact hypothesis.
22. Chapter XX Implicit Association Test.
23. Chapter XXI Performance under threat.
24. Chapter XXII What makes people aggressive.
25. Chapter XXIII The science of close relationships.
26. Chapter XXIV The cultural turn.
27. Chapter XXV Social psychology in the platform era.
28. Chapter XXVI Books and landmark papers.
29. Chapter XXVII Watch and read.
30. Colophon

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