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unusual facts about Social psychology


People accounting hypothesis

Within the field of equality, diversity and inclusion, the people accounting hypothesis is a social psychological theory based on social categorization.


Anne-Françoise Rutkowski

Born in Lille, Rutkowski received her MA in Social psychology at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 1993, and her Ph.D. in Cognitive and Social Psychology in 1999 at the Tilburg University for the thesis entitled "The social co-construction of the referential world : a redefinition of human morality" under supervision of Kenneth J. Gergen.

Center for Decision Research

This field of study draws on cognitive and social psychology, economics, sociology, statistics, and other disciplines to understand how individuals and groups make decisions.

Kresge College

The first provost of Kresge, Bob Edgar, had been strongly influenced by his experience in T-groups run by NTL Institute.

Louis-Philippe Morency

His main research interest is computational study of human multimodal computation, a multi-disciplinary research topic that overlays the fields of multi-modal interaction, machine learning, computer vision, social psychology and artificial intelligence.

Sandra Jovchelovitch

Sandra Jovchelovitch, from Porto Alegre, Brazil, is a social psychologist, currently Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the MSc program in Social and Cultural Psychology at the Institute of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics (LSE), of which she serves as head since August 2007.

Ursula Acosta

During her summers she took courses towards her Ph.D. at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany and in 1979 earned her Ph.D. in social psychology with minors in linguistics and sociology.


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American Institutes for Research

The twelve-member board of directors is led by chair Patricia B. Gurin, professor of social psychology at University of Michigan and vice chair Lawrence D. Bobo, a professor of social sciences at Harvard University.

Anselm Strauss

From there he moved to Indiana University (1946–1952), where he met and collaborated with Alfred Lindesmith; in 1949, they published their very influential book, Social Psychology.

Anthony Greenwald

According to Social Psychology, written by Saul Kassin, Steven Fein and Hazel Rose Markus; Anthony Greenwald, Mahzarin Banaji, Brian Nosek and others have done extensive research on cognition and have collaborated to create the Implicit Association Test (2008, p. 163).

Celebrity worship syndrome

"Celebrity worship" is a term coined by Lynn E. McCutcheon (DeVry University), Diane D. Ashe (Valencia Community College), James Houran (Southern Illinois University) and a few further collaborators in a series of articles published primarily in the North American Journal of Psychology and a non-peer reviewed working paper series called Current Issues in Social Psychology, the Journal of Psychology and British Journal of Psychology.

Eugene Webb

Webb has two books on the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett, and has authored the books The Dark Dove: The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature (1975), Eric Voegelin, Philosopher of History (1981), Philosophers of Consciousness (1988) and The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France (1993).

Frank Magid

While a junior professor of social psychology, anthropology and statistics at the University of Iowa and Coe College, Magid launched his own company, Frank N. Magid Associates in 1956, selling his first research study to Merchants National Bank in Cedar Rapids.

Gary Null

Seth Kalichman, professor of social psychology at the University of Connecticut, has decried Null's role as a prominent proponent of AIDS denialism and has accused him of cashing in on HIV/AIDS; in Kalichman's 2009 book, Denying AIDS, he compared Null's activities to Holocaust denial and described Null as an example of a dangerous entrepreneur who "obviously breached" the balance between free speech and protecting public health.

Geeta Rao Gupta

Rao Gupta received a Ph.D. in social psychology from Bangalore University, an M. Phil in organizational behavior from the University of Delhi, and a master's in clinical of psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Delhi.

Granfalloon

In social psychology the concept stems from research by the British social psychologist Henri Tajfel, whose findings have come to be known as the minimal group paradigm.

Herd mentality

Herd behavior in human societies has also been studied by Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Trotter, whose book Herd Instincts in Peace and War is a classic in the field of social psychology.

Interdependence theory

Interdependence theory was first introduced by Harold Kelley and John Thibaut in 1959 in their book, The Social Psychology of Groups.

Michael Hogg

Hogg received a PhD in social psychology from Bristol University and subsequently taught for 20 years in Australia, most recently at the University of Queensland.

Personality systematics

Family systems therapy received an important boost in the mid-1950s through the work of anthropologist Gregory Bateson and colleagues – Jay Haley, Donald D. Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry, and later, Virginia Satir, Paul Watzlawick and others – at Palo Alto in the US, who introduced ideas from cybernetics and general systems theory into social psychology and psychotherapy, focusing in particular on the role of communication.

Piper Reed

Mary Edwards Wertsch Journalist, Author & Military Brat, wrote the seminal work on the culture, social psychology of military brats.

Reicher

Steve Reicher, a professor of social Psychology and head of the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews

Rolf van Dick

Since 2006 Rolf van Dick has held the chair for Social Psychology at the Institute for Psychology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and also is teaching at Goethe Business School, Frankfurt.

Saul Kassin

He co-author the textbook Social Psychology with Dr. Steven Fein and Dr. Hazel Rose Markus.

Thorngate's postulate of commensurate complexity

Karl E. Weick maintains that research in the field of social psychology can – at any one time – achieve only two of the three meta-theoretical virtues of "Generality", "Accuracy" and "Simplicity."

Wil Edmunds

Edmunds has a degree in music from Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds, and a masters degree in social psychology from the University of Liverpool.