How to Use social psychology in a Sentence

social psychology

noun
  • Their mistake doesn’t arise from bad social psychology but from bad metaphysics.
    — Chilton Williamson Jr., WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
  • It was built on the same social psychology used by Facebook and Snapchat.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 24 June 2019
  • There’s big money in social psychology and a great deal of excitement.
    — 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
  • As studies from social psychology show, our sense of empathy for others can overwhelm us.
    — Katharina Menne, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • Yeah, 100 percent, and this is very well studied in social psychology.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2024
  • In terms of behavioral economics and social psychology, what’s going on in our brains?
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Has this little experiment in social psychology been worth it?
    — Robin Wadsworth, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Canonical research in social psychology showed that fear and anxiety lead people to affiliate with those around them.
    — Time, 17 June 2020
  • Among those on the picket line was Jacqueline Perez, a third-year doctoral student studying social psychology.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Yet perhaps social psychology’s most important insight on intergroup conflict came from a summer camp.
    — K.n.c., The Economist, 14 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 whole elaborate experiment is now regarded as a classic of social psychology.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Sophia Spencer, a specialist in social psychology and mental health therapy, echoed these sentiments.
    — Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • There is an old social psychology concept called propinquity, where collaborations are likely to occur with those who are in close proximity to one another.
    — Nicholas Ladany, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Decades of social psychology research demonstrate the profound impacts of strong relationships and connections between people.
    — Jonathan H. Westover, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • But Tangen—who holds graduate degrees in social psychology (earned in his thirties) and in art history (earned in his fifties)—has interests far beyond investing.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • But no one reading the book will come away with the sense that studies are often contested, or that many of the findings of social psychology and economics remain unsettled, or that results can be interpreted in many ways.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is not a question of empathy, religion, or social do-goodery, but one of competent story-telling, which requires a foundation firmer and sturdier than mere tenderheartedness and social psychology are able to provide.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Oct. 2019
  • In her social psychology research, Leibowitz studied the phenomena of SAD across a whole community.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 17 Nov. 2020

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