These processes are, in some cases, diametrically opposed, but they nonetheless mesh to generate human thought, emotion, and action. This interest in systems of tension also reflects the field's overall endorsement of a dynamic systems theory. Like meteorologists attempting to predict long-term changes in the weather, economists who have charted changes in wages and prices over decades, and physicists trying to develop computer simulations of wind turbulence, social psychologists study both simple and complicated systems that appear to be chaotic, yet display recurrent patterns over time. The milling of a crowd, the transmission of rumors, the change of attitudes after influence, the deliberations of a jury, and the evolution of social norms may be complex, unique, processes, yet they display nonrepeating regularities that follow predictable patterns. Empiricism Social psychologist are nothing if not empiricists.
Social psychologists strive to collect data to test their ideas.
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