Pathfinder: Social Psychology

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Videos

SCOPE: The focus of social psychology is the study of individual behavior in relation to the social environment. The social framework surrounding the individual influences behavior. Interpersonal relationships, groups, crowds, social movements are all factors that influence individual behavior. Socialization is a lifelong process through which the individual learns, and becomes motivated to conform to, the norms defining the social roles that are played or might be played by that individual. (Borgatta, Encyclopedia of Sociology) 

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with social psychology are listed in the Baddour Librarys on-line catalog under the following subject headings:

Persuasion (psychology)
Social Psychology
Collective behavior
Interpersonal relations
Alienation (Social psychology)
Attribution (Social psychology)
Empathy 

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF HM 251.B476 1995 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology

REF HM 251.H224 1998 The Handbook of Social Psychology

REF HM 17.E5 Encyclopedia of Sociology 

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection located on the second floor of the library are:

Chayko, Mary. Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1997.

Falk, Gerhard. Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders. Amherst, New York: Prometheus 
Books, 2001.

Faludi, Susan. Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. New York: W. Morrow and Co; 1999.

Feeney, Judith. Adult Attachment. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996.

Hechter, Michael and Karl- Dieter Opp, ed. Social Norms. New York: Russell Foundation, 2001.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Beyond the Double Bind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Kowalski, Robin M. Behaving Badly: Aversive Behaviors in Interpersonal Relationships. Washington, D.C: American Psychological Association, 2001.

Lawrence, Paul R. Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Prentice, Deborah A. and Dale T. Miller. Cultural Divides: Understanding and 
Overcoming Group Conflict. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.

Simons, Herbert W. Persuasion in Society. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications,
2001.

Tanenbaum, Leora. Catfight: Women and Competition. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002.

Triandis, Harry Charalambos. Culture and Social Behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill, 
1994.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of social psychology are:
 

American Journal of Psychiatry American Psychologist American Journal of Sociology American Sociological Review  Gender & Society  Psychological Review Psychology Today Society

VIDEOS 

BF 131.D55x 2001 pt. 25-26 Discovering Psychology