Social Psychology

About this course

Social psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with how people are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others. It investigates the ways in which social contexts shape individual thought, feeling, and behaviour, examining phenomena including conformity and obedience, attitudes and attitude change, prejudice and intergroup relations, group dynamics, social identity, prosocial and antisocial behaviour, and the cognitive processes that underlie social judgement. Social psychology occupies a distinctive position in the behavioural sciences, drawing on both the experimental rigour of psychological research and the broader contextual concerns of sociology, and it has produced some of the most famous and consequential studies in the history of science. At the University of East Anglia, you will study social psychology over three years of full-time study, developing

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