social psychologist
Group dynamics expert
A social psychologist is someone who studies how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others.
The field examines group dynamics, conformity, prejudice, attraction, and persuasion.
The social psychologist designed experiments to test how peer pressure affects decision-making.
Distinguished from sociologists, who focus more on institutions and social structures than individual psychology.
- attitudesSettled ways of feeling
- group dynamicsInteraction patterns among members
- experimental designStructured plan for research
- field studyResearch in actual environments
- groupAssembled collection of things
conformity · surveys · focus groups · attribution theory · Stanford prison experiment · conflict resolution · self-fulfilling prophecy · human behavior · stereotypes · persuasion · peer pressure · neuroscience · obedience · mob mentality · altruism · anthropology · bystander effect · aggression
- PsychologistsFreud, Jung, Piaget, Skinner, Maslow
- social scientistsanthropologist, economist, political scientist, criminologist, demographer
- scientistsbiologist, Einstein, anthropologist, Darwin, chemist
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Mental health treatment specialist
therapist · psychotherapist · psychiatrist · counselor · practitioner
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