Tell me about Social Psychology

[Daeva]

Well, the title says it. I need to know about Social Psychology.

[Barns]

You would fare much better if you picked one and just asked about that. Either Sociology or Psychology.

[Daeva]

I've seen plenty on Sociology and Psychology both, not to mention information is just flat out plentiful on both subjects. Someone mentioned a book on Social Psychology, so, I wanted to know some more about it.

[Serkat]

The more people work on a task the less efficient each one of them is.

[i make it rain]

In groups, people are lazy, stupid, and immoral.

[Universal Mind]

I will tell you that any college course you take on it is going to be a left wing indoctrination camp.

[Serkat]

I will tell you that any college course you take on it is going to be a left wing indoctrination camp. I only know that from political sciences and sociology...

[Universal Mind]

I only know that from political sciences and sociology... They're really bad about it too. In those subjects, I lost points on papers for expressing views that the professors did not like. They were points that are very often debated and accepted by mainstream experts, but the professors were like, "That is just incorrect. Minust 5!" My social psychology professor taught me another psych course the next year, and in a paper in that class I made the point that criminals need to be punished. My professor wrote, "The data indicate that punishment does not work," and he took off like 5 points. The political science professor at my last college got fired because he was such a jackass to students with conservative views. He made it his goal to personally humiliate them on a major level in class. It is very hard for professors to get fired, so you can imagine how extreme that guy must have been. That is a very big problem at American colleges.

[Barns]

I've seen plenty on Sociology and Psychology both, not to mention information is just flat out plentiful on both subjects. Someone mentioned a book on Social Psychology, so, I wanted to know some more about it. Well social psychology only contains sociology and psychology. There is nothing in social psychology which isn't part of sociology or psychology.

[Serkat]

Well social psychology only contains sociology and psychology. There is nothing in social psychology which isn't part of sociology or psychology. Duh. It's still a field of it own, just as physical chemistry or philosophy of language. It doesn't contain only sociology and psychology, it is a sub-field of psychology that deals with the psychological aspects of social interactions from small to large scale.