PSY 223 1st edition Lecture 2 8 25 Outline of Last Lecture I Intro to Social Psychology Outline of Current Lecture II History of Social Psychology a Birth and Infancy i First experiments ii First textbooks b 1930s 1950s i Kurt Lewin ii Muzafer Sherif c 1950s d 1960s 1970s e 1970s 1990s f Present day Current Lecture History of Social Psychology Birth and Infancy 1880s 1920s First social psych experiments First textbooks w social psych on them First Experiment Triplett s experiment 1887 o Bicyclists bicycled faster children when in lab wound fishing reel fasters in presence of others o Eventually referred to as social facilitation occurs when in presence of others and doing task o Easy task better when in front of others and difficult task better alone Ringelmann s experiment 1880s published 1913 o o Found people perform worse on simple tasks such as pulling rope when pulling with others Eventually became known as social loafing can t tell own contributions These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute First textbook An Introduction to Social Psychology William McDougall 1908 Edward Ross 1908 Floyd Allport 1924 most influential A Call to Action 1930s 1950s Hitler became a big deal led to questions about violence prejudice obedience etc Also social psych fled from Europe to US creating a critical mass Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues formed 1936 by Gordon Allport Kurt Lewin came around considered founding father of modern experimental social psych Came from Germany and made several research and theoretical contributions o Field theory B f P E interactionist perspective Behavior is a function of person and environment o Applications of social psychology no research without action and no action without research wanted people to make change and apply social psychology to real world problems o Performed leadership and group studies o Produced many famous students Muzafer Sherif o Examined influences of groups on members o Demonstrated that it was possible to study complex processes ex Conformity in a scientific way 1950s Theory Development War related research generated applied research College growth provided jobs for social psychologists and large student populations to study Government and business needed input from social psychologists Confidence the 1960s and 1970s Time of expansion productivity and enthusiasm New topics self perceptions helping behaviors aggression attraction Also time for criticism and debate Lab experiments questioned if valuable or ethical A Time of Pluralism 1970s 1990s Many methods were now used experiments surveys etc Both hot and cold perspective o Hot include emotions and motivation o Cold cognition Started looking internationally and at cultural perspectives Looked at how social cognition is effective in relationships New and Trendy now Integration of hot and cold perspectives Growing interest in distinguishing between automatic vs controllable processes ex Stereotypes vs ignoring them Biological and evolutionary perspectives use twins to study why we are the way we are look at why different traits die off etc Other IDS approaches behavioral economics embodied cognition