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Table 3. (Continued)Introductory
text author(s)Title of social
psychology
chapterDefinition of social psychology
in the chapterChapter’s
emphasis (1-5):
Individualistic
or
Collectivistic?Chapter’s
orientation:
PSP, SSP, or
Combination?
Hockenbury,
D. H., &
Hockenbury,
S. E. (2011)“The person
in social
context:
Social
psychology”Hockenbury & Hockenbury (2011,
p. 458): “Social psychology
investigates how your thoughts,
feelings and behavior are
influenced by the presence of other
people and by the social and
physical environment” (emphasis
added).3 = combines
individualistic
and
collectivisticCombinationKalat, J. W.
(2011)“Social
psychology”Kalat (2011, p. 452): Social
psychologists are “the
psychologists who study social
behavior and how people influence
one another: Social psychology
includes the study of attitudes,
persuasion, self-understanding,
and almost all everyday behaviors
of relatively normal people in their
relationships with others”
(emphasis added).3 = combines
individualistic
and
collectivisticCombinationLahey, B.
(2012)“Social
psychology”Lahey (2012, p. 527): “a branch of
psychology that studies individuals
as they interact with others”
(emphasis added).1 = mostly
individualisticPSPLilienfeld, S.,
Lynn, S. J.,
Namy, L.,
Woolf, N.,
Jamieson, G.,
Marks, A., &
Slaughter, V.
(2014)“Social
psychology:
How others
affect us”Lilienfeld et al. (2014, p. 496):
“Social psychology is the study of
how people influence others’
behavior, beliefs, and attitudes—
for both good and bad.” This
definition is from Lewin (1951).1 = mostly
individualisticPSPMorris, C., &
Maisto, A.
(2015)“Social
psychology”Morris & Maisto (2015, p. 484):
“the scientific study of the ways in
which the thoughts, feelings and
behaviors of one individual are
influenced by the real, imagined,
or inferred behavior or
characteristics of other people”
(emphasis added).1 = mostly
individualisticPSP