RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIAL

PSYCHOLOGY WITH OTHER

DISCIPLINES
NAME : SHAKSHI DHAM
A50706920055
B.A (H) APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
 WHAT IS SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY?
• Social psychology uses scientific methods to
understand and explain how the thoughts,
feelings, and behaviour of individuals are
influenced by the actual, imagined, or
implied the presence of other human beings.
• The decisions you make and the behaviours
you exhibit might depend on not only how
many people are present but exactly who
you are around. For example, you are likely
to behave much differently when you are
around a group of close friends than you
would around a group of colleagues or
supervisors from work.
• ​Social psychology is not just about looking at social influences. Social perception and social
interaction are also vital for understanding social behaviour.
• The way that we see other people (and the way we think they see us) can play a powerful
role in a wide variety of actions and decisions. Just think for a moment about how you
sometimes act differently in a public setting than you might if you were at home by yourself.
At home, you might be loud while in public you might be much more reserved.
• It is because the people around us shape our thoughts, feelings, moods, attitudes, and
perceptions. The presence of other people can make a difference in the choices we make and
the actions we take.
• While social psychology tends to be an academic field, the research that social psychologists
perform has a powerful influence on our understanding of mental health and well-being. For
example, research on conformity helps explain why teenagers sometimes go to such great
lengths to fit in with their social group sometimes to the detriment of their own health and
wellness.
• Understanding this helps psychologists develop public health programs and treatment
approaches for adolescents. These can help teenagers resist potentially harmful behaviours
such as smoking, drinking, and substance use.
 DISCIPLINES

FOLK SOCIOLOGY
WISDOM PERSONALITY
PSYCHOLOGY
 FOLK WISDOM
• Folk wisdom, which relies on anecdotal observations and subjective interpretation,
social psychology employs scientific methods and empirical study.
• Researchers do not really make assumptions on how people behave. They carry
out experiments that will help in relationships between different variables. Folk
wisdom often blame individuals for their rights. Social psychology is a science that
relies on such empirical methods as experimentation.
• Folk wisdom has long invoked the notion of willpower as a key ingredient for
successful self-control and self-discipline, suggesting that energy is consumed in
such acts of volition. Psychological theory dispensed with energy models for
decades.
• The traditional folk notion of willpower as a limited supply of energy that fuels
effort and virtue has proven surprisingly durable, and if updated with new
findings, it still forms the basis for a promising scientific account of human volition.
• Folk wisdom claims that we get
what we give, and what goes
around comes around. These folk
sayings assume that people will
respond to a person similarly to
the way the person responds to
them, and surely this is possible.
However, there is also the
possibility that people with get
something different from what
they give others. If one behaves in
a consistently aggressive manner
with others, they may not
reciprocate aggression but may
simply ignore and avoid the
aggression.
 FOLK WISDOM ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF RELATIONSHIP CONFLICT

• First published: 12 February 2008

•  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-4716.2007.00004.x
Abstract
• Three experiments examined cultural differences and similarities in folk wisdom about the
effects of perceived conflict. In Study 1, Americans exhibited an optimistic bias relative to
East Asians in their beliefs about perceived relationship conflict, but not conflict in general.
Study 2 suggests that these findings cannot be accounted for by cultural differences in
perceptions about the distinction, or lack thereof, between relationship and task-focused
forms of conflict. Furthermore, the results demonstrated an interaction effect such that both
groups prefer to address and resolve perceived task conflict proactively, whereas only
European Americans perceive that it is relatively unnecessary to address relationship
conflict to achieve task performance. Study 3 suggests that these cultural patterns have
behavioral implications, such that Americans were more likely than East Asians to join a
talented group likely to experience relationship conflict. Together, these results suggest
novel implications for intragroup dynamics in intercultural contexts.
• Personality psychology focuses on individual traits, characteristics, and thoughts. Social
psychology is focused on situations. Social psychologists are interested in the impact that the
social environment and group interactions have on attitudes and behaviours.
• Professionals who study personality psychology want to understand how personality
develops as well as how it influences the way we think and behave. Psychologists look at
how personality varies among individuals as well as how people are similar. They also assess,
diagnose, and treat personality disorders.
• Personality encompasses all of the thoughts, behaviour patterns, and social attitudes that
impact how we view ourselves and what we believe about others and the world around us.

• Understanding personality allows psychologists to predict how people will respond to certain
situations and the sorts of things they prefer and value. To get a sense of how researchers
study personality psychology, it will be helpful to learn more about some of the most
influential personality theories.
 How Personality Develops and Changes Through
Life
• Freud’s theory of psycho sexual development is one of the
best-known personality theories—but also one of the most
controversial. According to Freud, children progress through a
series of stages of personality development. At each stage,
libidinal energy (the force that drives all human behaviours)
becomes focused on specific erogenous zones.
• Successful completion of a stage allows a person to move on
to the next phase of development. Failure at any stage can
lead to fixations that can impact someone's adult personality.
• Erik Erikson, another psychologist, described eight
psychosocial stages of life. With Erikson's theory, each stage
plays a significant role in the development of a person's
personality and psychological skills.
• During each psychosocial stage, an individual will face a
developmental crisis that serves as a turning point in their
development. Successfully completing each stage leads to the
development of a healthy personality.
• Erikson was more interested in how social interactions
influenced the development of personality. He was primarily
concerned with the development of what he called ego
identity.
 THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS
• Trait theories of personality have
long attempted to pin down exactly
how many personality traits exist.

1. Openness
2. Conscientiousness
3. Extraversion
4. Agreeableness
5. Neuroticism
 This Picture shows the
Low score and High score
of 5 Personality Trait.

Everyone has different personality , ass we can see in this

video, the girl who is holding the menu card is feeling anxious
because of social anxiety and is not able to decide the meal for
herself.
 TIME FOR PERSONALITY QUIZ

• Check out that awesome FREE 3-in-1 personality quiz (and let
me predict things about you):
https://practicalpie.com/free-persona...

VIDEO LINK TO UNDERSTAND THE 5 PERSONALITY TRAITS

• https://youtu.be/KCwHV9HCxH0
 SOCIOLOGY
• Sociology focuses on social systems and studies
groups within society, as well as society as a whole,
to understand how people behave as a part of a
social system. Social psychology is more concerned
about individuals. Social psychologists study how
individuals respond to societal issues and how this
affects their mental health, including stress levels and
anxiety. Sociology is more concerned about groups
and how they influence culture and the overall
society, including how they impact societal issues
such as racism, socio-economic factors, and crime.
• While social psychology and sociology are different
in many ways, they do share some similarities. For
example, both fields are concerned with human
behaviour and how humans respond to the world
around them.
• Sociology studies the relationship between the individual and society. Although
studying many of the same substantive topics as in the field of psychology,
sociological social psychology places relatively more emphasis on the influence
of social structure and culture on individual outcomes, such as personality, behaviour,
and one's position in social hierarchies. Researchers broadly focus on higher levels of
analysis, directing attention mainly to groups and the arrangement of relationships
among people.
• Psychologists instead focus on situational variables that affect social behaviour. While
psychology and sociology both study similar topics, they are looking at these
questions from different perspectives.
 Sociology: A Lost Connection in Social Psychology
Shigehiro Oishi, Selin Kesebir, Benjamin H. Snyder

• First Published October 7, 2009 

• Research Article Find in PubMedhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1088868309347835
Abstract
• For the first half of the 20th century, sociology was one of the closest allies of social
psychology. Over the past four decades, however, the connection with sociology has
weakened, whereas new connections with neighboring disciplines (e.g., biology,
economics, political science) have formed. Along the way, the sociological perspective has
been largely lost in mainstream social psychology in the United States. Most social
psychologists today are not concerned with collective phenomena and do not investigate
social structural factors (e.g., residential mobility, socioeconomic status, dominant religion,
political systems). Even when the social structural factors are included in the analysis,
psychologists typically treat them as individual difference variables. Sociologist C. Wright
Mills famously promoted sociological imagination, or the ability to see distal yet
important social forces operating in a larger societal context. By comparing sociological
perspectives to psychological perspectives, this article highlights the insights that the
sociological perspective and sociological imagination can bring to social psychology.
 THANK-YOU
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