SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Social Psychology is a systematic study of interpersonal relations and social behavior. It is a discipline that employs scientific methods to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. The focus of Social Psychology is on the individual rather than on the group or some other unit. While this is so, the goal of the discipline is to understand how most people act in a given situation. Social Psychology is not so much concerned about the unique personal characteristics of individuals that may cause them to act differently from each other but its core is on understanding general tendencies in the actions, feelings, and thoughts of individuals