Social psychology, a field of psychology, is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

Quotes

• Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.
  • Solomon Asch, Social Psychology (1952), p. 61.

• Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energy input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment.
  • Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kahn (1966), The Social Psychology of Organizations. 2d ed. 1978. p. 16-17

• Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many “objective” features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.
  • Karl E. Weick, Social Psychology of Organizing, (1979). p. 243

See also

• Cognitive psychology
• Industrial and organizational psychology
• Social organization

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