Theories in Social Psychology

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Table of Contents

6 Acknowledgments

7 Begin Reading

8 Contributors

9 Index

10 End User License Agreement

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This book was prepared during trying times, an international pandemic and personal challenges. The publication would have been impossible were it not for the kind and diligent assistance of the following persons and institutions. Thanks to the staff at Wiley-Blackwell, in particular, Monica Rogers, Britta Ramaraj, Darren Lalonde, Christina Weyrauch, and the designing team for their efficiency, patience, engagement, suggestions, and help at every stage. To all the authors, I am grateful for your contributions. Specifically, I express my deepest gratitude to Kurt A. Boniecki, Mary Chadee, Beverly G. Conrique, Katja Corcoran, Richard Crisp, Faye J. Crosby, Jan Crusius, Victor Grandison, Cindy Harmon-Jones, Miles Hewstone, Meni Koslowsky, Angela Maitner, Bertram F. Malle, Andrew Marcinko, Thomas Mussweiler, Paul R. Nail, Richard E. Petty, Shani Pindek, Denise M. Polk, Ananthi Al Ramiah, Nils Karl Reimer, Abira Reizer, Ann Rumble, Katharina Schmid, Andreas Schneider, and Benjamin C. Wagner. Special thanks to Steve Dwarika, Shenelle Matadeen, Donella Jadoo, Lynae Roach, Keshan Williams, Mala Ramesar, and Starr Gomes for their assistance. I am sincerely thankful to everyone who provided the necessary technical and research assistance and other support leading up to the final publication. My heartfelt gratitude for the assistance of anyone whom I may have inadvertently left unacknowledged. This book is a research output of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.

Social psychology is relevant today as much as it was over a hundred years ago. But academics would argue that the impetus, and at the core, of any discipline is its theoretical foundation. The genesis to the maturity of social psychology from the early twentieth century to the second decade of the twenty-first century has seen the creation and development of numerous theories intended to conceptualize spheres of reality that were somewhat outside of the range of sociology or general psychology. Many of these theories still meaningfully contribute toward the research and theoretical expansion of the discipline.

Gordon Allport (1968) defined social psychology as “an attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others.” As limited as definitions are, this definition of social psychology captured the dynamism, focus, and direction of the discipline. Important to an understanding of social psychological behavior is taking into consideration not only what is happening socially to the person but also what is occurring internally, including cognitively, to the individual, which, in turn, affects social behavior. From its genesis rooted in the work of William James’s Principles of Psychology to current development of the discipline, there has always been an emphasis on the individual within the social interaction paradigm. Theorization, therefore, in the discipline has fallen within this paradigm, which is now extended to include the neurological functioning of human beings within the social psychological context.

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