Towards a More Social Social Psychology 213knowledge by which they interpret themselves to themselves” (p. 46). His
theory pinpoints a major issue that within supposed mainstream American
cultures, influences of collectivism exist, which would assist in
explanations of conformity.
Textbook portrayals, which use the PSP approach, emphasize the
individualistic aspect of social psychology as “possessing states that are
internal and stable—attitudes, cognitions, and personalities” (Gough et al.,
2013, p. 103). Instead, Gough et al. (2013) argue that an SSP aspect should
be incorporated in which social processes are not simply viewed as
behaviors which people do (or do not) perform, but rather viewed as an
emergence from within basic culturally prescribed social practices.
Griggs et al.’s (2001) study of 37 introductory psychology textbooks
found that although general chapter topics were largely similar, the content
within the chapters showed a great degree of variation. Gorenflo and
McConnell (1991) examined a list of 37,590 textbook citations and found
prominent psychologists were missing—including Skinner, Freud, and
Piaget. Warne et al. (2018) examined the 29 most popularly purchased
introductory psychology texts for coverage of intelligence as a
psychological concept. Findings determined that 79.3% of textbooks
contained inaccurate statements and logical fallacies in their sections about
intelligence. These s substantiate “there is no substantial common core
either in the language used by psychology text authors or in the
psychologists cited and journal articles referenced in these textbooks”
(Griggs, Proctor, & Johnson, 2002, p. 452).
METHOD
To learn more about the undergraduate psychology curriculum, Steuer
and Ham (2008) prescribe a technique for sampling textbook content using
a taxonomy to evaluate accuracy, and identified the psychological
experiments most commonly presented. Most introductory psychology
textbooks discuss the classic social psychological experiments, generally