Anthropology, sociology, history, political science, economics, and philosophy have the same general aim. Some of the work you will study in this course has been done by anthropologists, sociologists, historians, political scientists, economists, and philosophers. So much for clear lines. But still there are differences in emphasis among these fields. As you will see, social psychology is the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.
General psychology studies how an individual behaves.
Social psychology takes the examination one important step further by studying how the individual behaves in a social world. Define social psychology and give examples of the discipline's central concerns. Identify similarities and differences between social psychology and the other disciplines that study human nature. Describe the major research methods used in social psychology and state the advantages and disadvantages of each. Indicate how the personal values of social psychologists penetrate their work.