intro

• What organization was created in 1936 to address social issues?


  Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
• What was the aim of the SPSSI?

  Applied science to solve social problems
• What did Lewin mean by “No research without action, and no action without research”?

  Research must inform action to solve problems
• What event heightened the status of psychology in the scientific community?

  World War II
• When was the BPS Social Section founded?

  1953
• What key studies emerged from the expansion of social psychology after WWII?

  • Adorno (1950): Authoritative personality
  • Milgram (1963): Obedience to authority
  • Asch (1956): Conformity
  • Hatfield (1966): Relationships
  • Latane and Darley (1968): Bystander intervention
• Who proposed the conventionalist view in social psychology?

  Sampson (1991)
• What does the conventionalist view suggest about reality?

  It can be objectively studied through scientific methods
• What is the sociohistorical view in social psychology?

  Cultural and historical factors must be considered
• How do scientists view their role in the sociohistorical perspective?

  As storytellers proposing versions of reality
• What is the dominant view in social psychology according to Sampson?

  The conventionalist view