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If by social psychology you mean "the way people think and behave socially", i agree. If you mean "the results and theories of the discipline called 'social psy
by danharaj 11y ago
If by social psychology you mean "the way people think and behave socially", i agree. If you mean "the results and theories of the discipline called 'social psychology'", i disagree. It must be the case that each of us has some understanding of our social behavior and the behavior of others. Otherwise we would never form social structures.
i don't know if i've ever gained real insight into human behavior from reading the results of a contrived experiment.
- JoshCole 11y agoYeah. I've actually had a lot better results from Proverbs for example with regards to social behavior: giving gifts to people who are angry with you pacifies. There are other studies I've heard of that are really popular too, like the experiment where people are told that they must continue torturing someone, that when I've looked into it weren't nearly so iron-clad as claimed.
- mathattack 11y agoi don't know if i've ever gained real insight into human behavior from reading the results of a contrived experiment. Therein lies my problem. :-) I want to know more, but most sources are woefully unreliable.