How to Use social psychology in a Sentence

social psychology

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  • It was built on the same social psychology used by Facebook and Snapchat.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 24 June 2019
  • The subfield of social psychology tends to fare even worse.
    — Jesse Singal, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • For more than half of a decade, his academic research was at the crossroads of music and social psychology.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
  • There’s big money in social psychology and a great deal of excitement.
    — Jesse Singal, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Their mistake doesn’t arise from bad social psychology but from bad metaphysics.
    — Chilton Williamson Jr., WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The class includes a crash course in social psychology — how people often let emotion dictate reason and the benefits and drawbacks to working as a group.
    — Jennifer Miller, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • In terms of behavioral economics and social psychology, what’s going on in our brains?
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The findings support a growing body of research that places our evolved social psychology at the heart of our beliefs in religion and the supernatural.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2023
  • Among those on the picket line was Jacqueline Perez, a third-year doctoral student studying social psychology.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • As studies from social psychology show, our sense of empathy for others can overwhelm us.
    — Katharina Menne, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • In 1954, a researcher named Muzafer Sherif conducted what would become one of the most famous experiments in social psychology.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2022
  • This was an ‘aha’ moment for the field of social psychology — the researchers had identified a quantifiable measure of social connection.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The famous social psychology exercise involved breaking groups of students into guards and inmates in a mock prison scenario and claimed to show that each group adapted to its role in dramatic ways.
    — Mitch Stacy, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • One of the most optimistic, uplifting and reliable findings from social psychology, in the last 10 or 15 years, is that helping others provides a fast track to improving our own well-being.
    — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Yet her transformational ideal is as much a matter of shifts in artistic and social psychology as of cinematic form.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Has this little experiment in social psychology been worth it?
    — Robin Wadsworth, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • Canonical research in social psychology showed that fear and anxiety lead people to affiliate with those around them.
    — Time, 17 June 2020
  • Gelman, who studied math and physics at M.I.T. before turning to statistics, does not believe that social psychology is any more guilty of P-hacking than, say, biology or economics.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Twenty percent may not sound impressive, but in fact this is several times larger than the average effect in our field of social psychology, in which typically up to around 4% or 5% of the variation in an outcome is explained.
    — Alexandra Wormley, The Conversation, 6 June 2023
  • While Templeton aims to inspire her residents, these conversations also inspire her own research in the field of social psychology.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Kaufmann cites social psychology to argue that affection for one’s own group is not correlated with hatred of another.
    — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Dicky Pelupessy, who teaches social psychology at the University of Indonesia, said his relative tested positive in a rapid test at his company, but didn’t want to go to the hospital.
    — Miho Inada, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Her adviser and co-author on the study, Joar Vittersø, a professor of social psychology at the University of Tromsø, would sometimes commute to the university on cross-country skis.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 17 Nov. 2020
  • In her social psychology research, Leibowitz studied the phenomena of SAD across a whole community.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Simpson taught two courses: The social psychology of the Holocaust and sport and exercise psychology beginning in February 2019.
    — Marc Hayot, Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2022
  • His work drew on social psychology, cultural anthropology and Freudian psychoanalysis, and bridged the worlds of business and academia.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The whole elaborate experiment is now regarded as a classic of social psychology.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Yet perhaps social psychology’s most important insight on intergroup conflict came from a summer camp.
    — K.n.c., The Economist, 14 Aug. 2019
  • One of the foundational insights of social psychology is that attitudes are very weak predictors of behaviors, but more importantly than that, no Black community has ever taken to the streets to demand that white people would love us more.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Research in social psychology and behavioral economics generally shows that people often focus on the negatives and can block out the positives.
    — Josh Boak, ajc, 5 Nov. 2022

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