Category: Social Psychology

In this essay I will consider the responses to the coronavirus pandemic on two main levels; Government responses (policies, rules and restrictions, decision making processes etc.) and Public responses (protests, conspiracy theorists, individuals mental health etc.). I will discuss how social psychology can be used to rationalise groups and individuals behaviours, by applying theories centering…

Introduction Social Psychology, a division of Psychology that handles the backgrounds and the social interaction of someone and how it makes impact on the person thus forming the personality or character of the person. In Social Psychology, people would study on certain phenomena that effects the approach, feelings, behavior, and thoughts of a person on…

Mitchell (2009), defines social psychology as the field that attempts to understand how the thought, feeling, and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual or imagined presence of others. The importance of social psychology is highlighted by Delamater( 2018), who states social psychology helps Scientific researchers to understand peoples thoughts and helps to explain…

Contemporary social psychology is dynamic, wherein social psychologists must understand the social interface between how society impacts individuals in their social contexts and how individuals affect society in an ever changing world, in order to progress change for the betterment. There are many contemporary issues that benefit from being investigated further, mediatisation (Hardt&Negris, 2012) cross-cultural…

Summary The topic of analysis is the significance of social groups and social identity in medical undergraduates based on Ben Lovells research article We are a Tight Community. The author centres his argument in the fact that students in the medical career generally mix into separate groups that position themselves differently from other undergraduates. The…

Chapter one: Social Representations through stereotypes Social representations are essential for the world. They are a societys shared beliefs, ideas, values and assumptions and they help bring sense to the world and understanding it (Myers& Twenge, 2018 p.9). However, these representations can be harmful. For example, on the image above, the woman is a Muslim…

Introduction Developmental psychology is concerned with age-related changes and inexperience and behavior,it aims to describe and explain development change from its starting point to old age Developmental characteristics studied include personality, development of relationships with other people, cognitive capacity and biological changes. In all these characteristics mentioned above, for instance, the level of biological development…

Article 1: Habit in Personality and Social Psychology by Wendy Woods Habit is one of the different features that human beings possess. Woods (2017) did thorough research on this topic and came up with crucial findings. The researcher mentioned that even though it would be expected for psychologists to do much more research on peoples…

For part one of this assignment, we were asked to explore how social psychology contributes to our understanding of social problems. By that we will have to summarize an article from the Journal of Social Issues and reflect on the implications of the article. The journal of social issues article has been published since 1945,…