1. Social Psychology
“an attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others” (Allport, 1954)

2. Journals Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP)
Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS)
Psych Bull, Psych Review, Psych Science, PSPR, AESP

3. Societies Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Society of Experimental Social Psychologists (SESP)

4. History Why learn about the history of SP?
What determines what topics are studied or no longer studied?

5. Brief history of Social Psychology
Greek philosophers
Psychology begins in 1800s
1864 Cattaneo uses “social psych” for group emergence
1871 mentioned in Linder’s textbook
1876 Ringlemann study
1898 Triplett study

6. First textbooks—1908 (McDougall, Ross)
Floyd Allport’s text in 1924
Experiments are king—The psychology of groups is the psychology of the individuals
Journal of Abnormal Psych becomes J of Ab Psych and Social Psych in 1921

7. vs. behaviorism and psychoanalysis WW2 and Nazis
Gestalt psych
Practical applications
Kurt Lewin
GI Bill, boom time for social psychologists
First handbook 1954
Leon Festinger—experimental revolution

8. 1947 SPSP starts, 1965—JPSP and JESP
50s/60s—group dynamics wanes. Individuals and attitudes become more prominent
70’s cognitive revolution
Paper and pencil are king!
Gergen, social psych as history
McGuire—need more diverse methods
IRBs, better data analysis techniques

9. 80’s new topics like love and relationships, evolutionary psychology, the self
1980 JPSP split into 3 parts
EJSP and JASP 1971
PSPB 1975

10. 00’s influence of culture
90’s decade of the brain
Evolutionary psych
Social neuroscience
00’s influence of culture
Multidisciplinary
Nonconscious approaches
Internet

11. 00’s and beyond Broadening 5 ways
Topics
The discipline
Perspectives
Methods
Globally
“You can never have too many social psychologists.”

12. Controversies and resolutions
Social psych continues to respond to zeitgeist
Construal vs. behaviorism
Basic vs. applied
Person vs. situation
Evolution vs. culture
Still going on: IAT, free will, how to give psych away, replication wars

13. McGuire’s (1973) koan
“the sound of one hand clapping…and the wrong hand”
We put too much emphasis on testing hypos, not enough on generating them
“In this nettle chaos, we discern this pattern, truth”
We need to get away from simple, linear models
“Observe. Nut observe people not data”
We need to remember that data come from people
“To see the future in the present, find the present in the past”
We need to put together more data archives and do more longitudinal studies

14. “The new methodology where correlation can indicate causation”
We should use ANOVAs less and other techniques that let us deal with messier data more.
“The riches of poverty”
See the advantages of decreased funding (get more personal with your research, think about it more)
“The opposite of a great truth is also true”
It’s okay that some of these recommendations conflict with each other.
Ellworth, 2004 response
Are we demonstrating or testing?

15. Theories (Van Lange, 2013)
“There’s nothing so practical as a good theory.” Kurt Lewin
What is a theory?
What are the purposes of theories?
When are theories useful?
What makes a theory good?

16. Van Lange, 2013 Truth Abstraction Progress Applicability
How do we design studies with these in mind?

17. In social psychology… Are we too theory focused or not enough?
What are “levels” of theories and what level should we be theorizing at?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of theory-based research?
Theory-driven research vs. HARKing (Kerr, 1998)

18. SP and internal conflicts
2001 Karen Ruggiero UT-Austin/Harvard made up data
2011 Bem ESP studies
2011 Diederik Stapel fraud in at least 54 papers
2011/2 Simonsohn accuses Dirk Smeesters of fraud
2011+ Open Science Framework gains in popularity, talk of badges, QRPs, false positives
2012 Doyen et al and Harris et al fail to replicate Bargh classic “old people” study
2012/3 Bargh responds, fights ensue, more replication issues for priming studies
2015 LaCour case

19. Replications Many Labs replication project (Klein et al. 2014)
Why is replication important?
What does it mean if an effect doesn’t replicate?
What did they find? Which effects were over vs. under estimated according to the authors? Why might that be?
Table 2 (and Figure 1)
How much variability was due to sample?

20. Blog by Michael Ramscar—what is his argument?
So is there a replication crisis for priming studies or not? Is replication useful?
Return to Gergen, 1973

21. The State of Social Psychology (relevant terms)
QRPs
P-curve, z-curve
Replicability index
Open Science
p-hacking
HARKing
Statcheck R
Statistical power
Bootstrapping
TIVA
Open Science/ Open Science Framework

22. Possible perspectives (Motyl et al., 2017)
“rotten to the core”
“it can get better”
“it’s not so bad”
“it’s getting worse”

23. Studies Study 1—survey Study 2—archival Issues? Table 1 Measures
Why are average ES smaller at Time 2?
Is SSD responsible for these changes?

24. How do we improve SP?

25. More terms Induction vs. deduction Effect sizes Power analysis
Mediation
Moderation

26. Other methodological issues
Is using college students as participants okay?
What should you think about when choosing a DV?
What p-level should you use? Or should you use one at all?
Keep records of everything and all syntax

27. Next week Chapter on the self Article on shared meaning Chapter on TMT
Empirical article on narcissism in US Presidents